I watched Josh Johnson’s special about removing Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and a host of other things.
In his usual way, Johnson sort of pokes at the issue from the side, first talking about what it feels to like to be caught off guard and to be scared, before coming to a fundamental question of human existence: do you care?
And when he does finally come to the issue at hand, the attacks on our free speech, he offers up a pretty basic truth.
Pendulums swing‘. Governments do not give back power that was taken.
9/11 was a long time ago. When did we get our privacy back?
Which, historically, is essentially a universal truth. If we are at all lax when the government comes to take power away, it will be lost forever. Which makes this a really important moment in our collective history.
Yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee wrote about giving away the web for free. I’ve written a few times about how this was the single most important decision in the web’s history. Berners-Lee appears to agree. But he also
I immediately flashed back to what Johnson had said. Penulum’s swing. We do not get back power that was taken.