And it’s about fucking time. This is wonderful news. It might be tough to pass, but I think it can be done. At the very, very least, we have to try. So contact your Congresscritters and either thank them for supporting equal rights or ask them why the hell they aren’t supporting equal rights.
Let’s really make this the land of the free!
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He’s been back in the news, so the idiots, the liars, and the misinformed have been making their “Al Gore invented the internet!!!1!” jokes again, and it’s finally pissed me off enough that I want to beat this lie to death with a lead pipe. Al Gore, in fact, has been recognized for the work he did in “taking the initiative to create the internet”. Here is a quote from a book written in 1996 on the subject:
During the second half of the 1980s, the joys of ’surfing the net,’ began to excite the interest of people beyond the professional computer-using communities […] However, the existing computer networks were largely in government, higher education and business. They were not a free good and were not open to hobbyists or private firms that did not have access to a host computer. To fill this gap, a number of firms such as CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, and America Online sprang up to provide low cost network access […] While these networks gave access to Internet for e-mail (typically on a pay-per-message basis), they did not give the ordinary citizen access to the full range of the Internet, or to the glories of gopherspace or the World Wide Web. In a country whose Constitution enshrines freedom of information, most of its citizens were effectively locked out of the library of the future. The Internet was no longer a technical issue, but a political one. The problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s. In 1990 he was the author of the High Performance Computing Act, which proposed the creation of a high-speed fiber optic network that would produce enormous leverage for the information economy of the twenty-first century.
I’ve got more. A lot more. I don’t want to bore you all with this on the front page, so if you want my continued outraged rantings on the subject, just follow me.
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