"Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.”-Heinz V. Berzen
Why the government tries to control information? Information that is not until and unless relates to very sensitive issues such as Military matters should be open to all, yet all government fears the free flow of the information.
The reason is the obvious, the information has the potential to generate new ideas.Information leads to free exchange of ideas which in the due course of time leads to the pathbreaking new ideas. Any new idea is detrimental to the old stucture or old fabric. It is obvious that any new idea is normally related to either the social or the political matters. And therefore the new ideas are seen as something feared upon by the governments. Whether the government is the democratic or autocratic, whether it is United states or the Iran, they all share one thing and that is a free flow of inforamtion between the citizens of the country. All to curb generation of new ideas that can prove to be dangerous for the elites sitting in these governments.
Internet is one of the most important tools in the hand of common man today for bringing about a positive change in the society. This positive change if you ask any citizen of a country, he will say that he would like the positive change to happen in the political sphere. In fact he would most likely place the political change prior to the social change.
Governments fear this and now there is increased scrutinity of the informations exchanged on the e-platform. Numerous websites especially like Wikileaks has been banned....why because they strip all the sheaths of the government.
Why governments wants to conceal information? So that nobody can know how much they siphon off the taxpayers money, or how many people are killed in the jungles of kenya, or how many of the people are tortured in Guatnamo....
Friends that battlefield has changed..we are no longer fighting the monster on the ground...though we wil continue to fight on the streets...we need to unite to ward off the evil from another battlefield...let's get ready for the big battle....let's equip each other on technology and knowledge tools...1 billion computer experts will be difficult to stop...let's make lives of those sitting in the secret services of China and CIA offices a little bit difficult...
