The Internet

I had a very scary thought early this morning:
What one thing ties the world together today?  The internet.

Who controls the internet?  Many say that no one person or body can control it, but what if one person does?  What if one man could take control of the internet, and have all that is in it at his discretion? He would have the power of complete censorship; he would literally come into nearly every home in America, and be able to obtain valuable information about any one of us; private, personal, and vital information that could ruin us, or promote us, whichever he desired!  Think of the power he would have in the mere knowledge of our business activities, our beliefs, our very heart and souls! 

    Perhaps you are saying “It will never happen, no one person can control the internet”, but a few years ago men thought that something like the internet itself would be an impossibility!  Who would have thought that one man would discover something so widespread and so prominent as the internet?  Yet one man did, and look at it now!  Some could hardly get along a few days without it!

    Think about it: if the internet became under the control of Muslims, all Christian sites could be shut down.  (Already it is possible to shut down certain sites, as many of us have seen).  If it came under the control of any man or group, we would be at their mercy for the most part, at least under their watchful eye.  “Big Brother“ is watching already to some extent; if you do not believe that, try posting a lot of illegal stuff and see what happens to you!   I have no qualms with the law regulating the internet, it needs to be checked, but, what if the ant-Christ had control of such a powerful tool?   We put too much vital information on the net.   

    My point is that we need to wean ourselves from the net, and spend less time revealing our personal lives through even “friendly” sites; others who are enemies of good and righteousness also have access to these sites.  Let us hope that it is not too late already.  Does this sound rather fanatical to you?  Does it sound so far-fetched that you laugh at the thought of it?  If so, you may be the net’s greatest victim.  The possibility has already been proven; many have hacked into computers of banks, financial institutions, and even stole identities of past veterans that served our country, and all through the internet!  That which we all thought to be good can turn out to be very evil.  Already it has been reported that perverts are watching, and gathering information about our children and they are able to discern where we live, and how many are in the family, etc., because we have surrendered that information on the net for all to see.  One cannot protect themselves enough, there is always someone that can break through passwords, and firewalls, and phishing nets, and filters, etc., and steal our identities. 




Please be careful how you use the internet.