content: Came here to post this, but this was posted much more eloquently than I would have. On another point, though...  Sunde still doesn't understand that government is the problem, and phrases it as if companies which we have a choice to ignore are the problem. He's blaming the victim, which is odd for somebody who's been so victimized by legislation himself.  What I don't get is why Sunde would propose "more government", when the original Netizen/Net Pirate ideology was based around a much more anarchistic base. He says he wants less centralization, but by involving government more, the only thing his suggestion does is centralize things even more, whether by government control of speech online, censorship by unmasking of anonymous speech, or by cronyistic policies allowing near-monopolistic oligopolies in each region. He's betraying everything the original hacker ethic stood for, in this statement, and it makes me wonder if he's been compromised.