Salon.com Technology | Are we doomed yet?

"Though we might be foolish to put too much faith in the romantic notion of the "citizens' militia," we should be very suspicious of laws that limit the creation or dissemination of knowledge. They threaten to create a privileged class of information shepherds who, though well-meaning at first, could easily abuse their dramatic power advantage over information consumers. We should not give up our freedom to know and to communicate unless we are certain that the new order would be vastly more secure than the present one..."