Imagine what the 1960s would have been like, had protestors been able to use the Internet to organize protests and other get togethers. Or if Woodstock were to have been broadcast live on to the Internet, for all to see and share. Certainly, much of the music of that era would have been freely avalible on the Internet. The 1960s would have been different in some senses with the Internet, but in others exactly the same.

It seems unimaginable how the red scare could have existed in the 1950s, had there been the Internet. Proscribing the Communist Manifesto would have been impossible, as soon as a cease-and-desist order demanded that a copy be taken down, other copies would spring up on other servers, and expand all over the Internet. That is assuming that the youth culture was as rebellious at that time as it is today.

In pre-internet time periods the effect of the Internet would have seemingly been great. That would suggest that the Internet is having a great effect on society today, one that is beyond what is obviously seen by us as individuals. It is exposing us to new information and brining us beyond the censorship that dominated communications (at least widespread communications) of yesteryear.

Nothing can be censored sucessfully any more, and any idea can be freely expressed. Leaks can not be supressed. As soon as one site takes down a webpage, another three can be created. It seems the Internet knows no law and no limit, as it is so fluid and changing.