Big media (in the form of the New York Times) recently fired a warning shot across the bow of the blogosphere:

I am copyright counsel to The New York Times Company.
It has come to our attention that you have posted on your web site at www.thenationaldebate.com what you are calling your "faux Times Columnist Corrections Page." [...] By using The Times's name, logos, advertisments, live links, design and layout, you are blatantly infringing upon our exclusive rights under trademark and copyright laws [...] I must insist that you remove the page from public display immediately and confirm to us within twenty-four hours that you will not use our materials in the future.

Which, thanks to the lovely DMCA (a product of the Clinton administration we might add), they have the power to make stick:

[Verio, the host of theNationalDebate, have] received the attached notification of copyright infringement regarding your website, www.thenationaldebate.com. [As required in the DMCA] Verio will suspend your account within 3 days if the offending material is not removed.

Which just means the New York Times is going to re-learn the same lesson taught to the Scientologists: the Internet moves at the speed of light:

Rooftop Report | View The Banned New York Times Columnist Correction Page Here
Silflay Hraka | View The Banned New York Times Columnist Correction Page Here
Classical Values | View The Banned New York Times Columnist Correction Page Here
Hobbsonline | View The Banned New York Times Columnist Correction Page Here

And, well, here too.

The parallels between this event and those surrounding one Martin Luther are quite striking. Then, as now, a single individual posted a set of grievances against a powerful institution claiming rights to "the truth" in a public place. Then, as now, that institution used its size, power, and wealth in an attempt to muzzle this voice and destroy all evidence of the complaints. Then, as now, a new technology allowed copies of those complaints to be spread across the world literally faster than they could be destroyed (scattered on the wind like so many dandelion seeds).

Is the revolution here? Is it now?

Let's find out...

No increase in the ability of mankind to communicate has ever resulted in a loss of liberty.