How many words have been published on the internet?
Impossible to say, of course, and more words are being added every second at such a rate that it would be impossible to keep count. And it doesn’t matter anyway. But something else does matter.
And that is that all those billions of words are in exercise of the basic freedom of speech that most of us in the West take for granted. A freedom which our fathers and grandfathers marched off to war to defend. But that freedom is again under attack and we must defend it at all costs.
The diabolical Hidden Hand that would deprive us of this right uses the pretexts of pornography and so-called “hate sites” as an excuse to call for “control” (i.e. censorship) of the internet. But if they were genuinely concerned about pornography they could make it a crime and use the powers of governments to smash the criminal syndicates that run this ugly industry.
And as for “hate sites”, like “hate crimes” they exist only in the hidden agendas of these evil people, who will pin the “hate” label on anyone they disagree with but are afraid to engage in open debate (because they know they would lose).
If the Hidden Hand had their way, all the billions of words uploaded onto the internet would be worth nothing, for they would all have been written with an eye to keeping within the limits imposed by the thought police.
Only one word is worth anything, and that word is . . .
Freedom.
Let’s make sure we don’t lose it.
Philip Gegan
