Road Conditions

Remember that slippery slope I warned you about yesterday? It's black ice today, and very few people are paying attention. What happens then? Things go splat, of course:

"The owner, Pradyuman Maheshwari, has decided to cease the publication because he doesn't have the time, energies and monies to fight the biggies."

Between the RIAA targeting file sharers, trademark suits brought by big companies like Apple, and the government trying to take away our First Amendment right to freedom of speech, the road ahead looks bumpy indeed. I smell a trend, and it's "divide and conquer." Seems to me it's already proving quite successful.

There is strength in numbers, however. The citizens of the blogosphere need to give serious thought to finding a way to use both our collective voices... and our collective wallets... to preserve our rights. This is one time where we absolutely MUST be more nimble than big business and big government. Hellooooooooo??? Anybody out there?

(A tip of the cap to the Instapundit.)
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