[Arm-netbook] The R/Evolution... will not be Televised

[Jonathan Frederickson]

Haha I love this! XD

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-lyrics-gil-scottheron.html
>
> The R/Evolution will not be televised,
> NDA/d or incentivized.
>
> The R/Evolution will not be patented,
> DRM'd or proprietized.
>
> There will be no binary blobs to spy on you,
> no nagware to pry your money from you,
> or a rootkit to pre-fit,
> like the BMG baloney
> that harmed the modern Army:
> CDs played in secret bases:
> Classified files sent to Sony.
>
> The R/Evolution will not be televised:
> The R/Evolution will not be televised.
> Your freedom from reasons you don't know
> or even care about, exchanged for convenience
> or profit or meta-data or the contents of
> your pocket, stolen without your knowledge
> but you signed your rights away with a
> Hobson's Choice.
>
> Without the R/Evolution
> There will be no V for Vendetta,
> You'll be staring at a beretta
> for sharing files that much better
> than the RIAA or the Mafia
> ever did.
>
> Your friends will not know
> about the Internet Ghetto
> because they're in it already:
> when you're joined by so many
> you can't call it Net Neutrality
> if you agreed to the FCC's perfidity
> by funding the only Telco Monopoly
> that's in your vicinity.
>
> No my friends: The R/Evolution will not
> be televised because the Internet's
> incentivised, controlled and illegalised:
> Tim Cook's words "we did it to ourselves"
> ringing in our ears like bells,
> our defense shouted out
> "I HAD NOTHING TO HIDE"
> as your health insurance climbs
> or your're airport flight denied
> because the DNA of someone whose name rhymes
> with yours was a "perfect match"
>
> The R/Evolution will not be televised,
> because nobody will own a television.
> They'll be staring at a smartphone
> that they think they own
> sitting next to half a dozen people in
> a restaurant, all silent, only laughing
> out loud because someone made
> a joke on a Facebook group everyone
> at the table is in.
>
> The R/Evolution will not be televised:
> The R/Evolution will not be televised.
> it will be live.
>
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