{"id":3407,"date":"2016-11-13T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:46:51","slug":"lessons-history-rulers-rather-kill-people-allow-share-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/lessons-history-rulers-rather-kill-people-allow-share-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons of History: Rulers would rather kill people than allow them to share ideas freely"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last column, I outlined how the Power of Narrative is the biggest power anybody can hold in society, and the civil unrest that follows when it is handed over. I wrote a little bit about parallels between the printing press and today\u2019s Internet in terms of how that power is shifting. However, most people aren\u2019t prepared for just how far rulers are prepared to go to defend their power of narrative: judging by history, they would rather have people killed than thinking freely.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They say that people who don\u2019t study history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history (and meanwhile, those who do<\/em> study history are doomed to stand by watching others repeat those same mistakes). Therefore, it is absolutely vital to understand the power struggles around the printing press.<\/p>\n

I wrote<\/a> in my last column that Martin Luther\u2019s mass-printed bibles in German and French, the so-called Luther Bibles, enabled the common folk to completely bypass the clergy\u2019s reading of bibles in Latin, enabling them to go straight to the source material and cut out a gatekeeper, something that led to a century of civil war.<\/p>\n

That era was so turbulent, it deserves more attention. The power play and the power shifts are fairly identical to what we\u2019re seeing with the Internet today \u2013 only the players are different, but the privileges being upended are largely the same, right down to a monopoly on duplication (yes, that would be copyright).<\/p>\n

The Luther Bibles started coming out in 1522 (New Testament), and this set off a panic in the nobility of the time. Royalty at the time was mostly willing to give the clergy and nobility what they asked for, as long as giving the common folk what they asked for wasn\u2019t more important, and the clergy\u2019s panic around the ability to print copies of material that broke their Power of Narrative called for increasingly harsh punishments \u2013 until on January 13, 1535, in France, the penalty for using a printing press for any reason reached the death penalty by hanging.<\/p>\n

Did you get that part? There was a death penalty for making unauthorized copies, and even that didn\u2019t work to prevent copying.<\/strong> Not even the death penalty deters a people who have tasted the ability to seek and share ideas freely. The lesson from history here is that rulers would rather have people dead than thinking. Literally.<\/p>\n

The official justification for the law, as cited by people who have read the original law books from 1535, was \u201cto prevent the spread of dangerous ideas\u201d. What can be more dangerous than something contradicting the official narrative? If you\u2019re an institution who considers itself responsible for educating the public to its level of necessity and rationing the knowledge available, somebody circumventing your gatekeeping and distributing not just all ideas unfiltered, but also distributing unsanctioned ideas \u2013 that\u2019s dangerous to all of society. (The rest of society might not see it that way, but you would.) We see the exact same words being used today when mainstream media is throwing names at people using the net to circumvent them.<\/p>\n

The French death penalty against printing in 1535 didn\u2019t work. Not at all. People circumvented the ban by any means available, and books were pouring in to France from all her six borders.<\/p>\n

England went another way, seeing the failure of even capital punishment to deter the spread of new ideas: Queen Mary (\u201cBloody\u201d Mary, infamous for her persecutions of wrongthinkers) colluded with a printing guild, the London Company of Stationers, and gave them a complete monopoly on printing anything and everything in England \u2013 but only in exchange for the Crown\u2019s censors being able to determine which ideas got printed, and which ones weren\u2019t allowed.<\/p>\n

This censorship mechanism, which was created<\/a> on May 4, 1557, was called copyright<\/em> \u2013 and it survives to this day, except for a short lapse between 1695 and 1710.<\/p>\n

This piece of history tells us why anonymity is, and has always been, important when sharing information, knowledge, and culture. There is a direct red line between today\u2019s copyright industry and people being punished for sharing the wrong piece of culture in the 1500s.<\/p>\n

Until policy has changed drastically, privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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