Hi, my name is Victor Nicollet, and I own this website. I no longer
wish to stay silent in the fight for freedom of communication and
computation, and for an open internet.

I recognize that such freedom may be abused. I have myself experienced
the chilling effects of piracy when it put a financial end to my
dreams of independent game development. I have myself experienced the
distress caused by rampant online slander. I expect such abuses to
be forbidden, punished and prevented to the best of our ability.

I recognize that the current technical and legal environment makes it
hard to punish and prevent such abuse. I agree that we should do
something about this by changing the technology and changing the laws.

Yet, the benefits we have consistently reaped from a free, open and
uncensored internet over the last decade alone greatly outweight the
price we have paid for it. Any improvements we make should not
threaten those benefits. 

Therefore, I am convinced that:  

  Any legal or technical changes MUST reliably preserve the benefits of
  a free, open and uncensored internet. They SHOULD NOT follow a private
  agenda with no genuine interest in the greater virtual good.

  Those changes MUST be thoroughly examined and vetted by people who are
  recognized to be competent on this topic. They SHOULD NOT be
  unilaterally drafted and applied by computer-illiterate decision-makers.

  Should anyone obtain, by force or by law, powers to regulate our
  ability to compute and communicate, we MUST ensure that any abuse of
  those powers is forbidden, prevented and punshed.

This is sadly not the case. It is time to stand up and fight. 

http://wastedcode.com/freedom/