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We now have a global computer network that nobody can stop. Nobody can censur it either. There is no way that we can prevent somebody from using Internet. If you do not like your government you can always have your web page in another country. (The Chipas revolutionaries in Mexico have theirs in Texas!) It does not matter where your computer is, if it is connected to the Internet your material is available to everybody that is connected.
As a Social Studies teacher I think that the Internet is the best thing that has happened to Democracy for a long time. Dictators beware!
If you feel like it you can send Bill Clinton a picture of your mother-in-law.
Or, you can tell people how to build their own little bombs (please do not do that!). The point is not that you should do this or that, but rather that you can do this or that. We can not make matches illegal just because some nuts start fires, and we can not make Internet illegal for the simple reason that it is impossible to do so. The Military have won. They have managed to help create a computer system that nobody can stop, not even them.