I may confuse "financial" with "monetary" here. Anyway, the main problem is banks creating money out of thin air, then taking an interest when they lend it. I

I may confuse "financial" with "monetary" here. Anyway, the main problem is banks creating money out of thin air, then taking an interest when they lend it. I am oversimplifying, but the observable effects are the same: Banks are basically taking their toll. That should be the privilege of the state. The internet is the voice of the people, but we are encouraged to be clients, consumers. Not servers, participants, peers. At the root of the problem are some unjustified limitations. Weak upload bandwidth, dynamic IP (when we have a public one) and blocking the outgoing SMTP port are the most glaring. If those limitation were addressed (and we educate people of course), the internet would be more decentralized and more free. More details here: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-2010/ http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-20...