A prize of many

Most people remember the shock and mixed opinions when President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize very early in his presidency. His stance on nuclear weapons, foreign policies, health care, and peace negotiations in the middle east had obviously made a statement to the committee.

2010: Among the nominee’s for this years Peace Price include Svetlana Gannushkina and her human rights group, Liu Xiaobo, a chinese human rights activist currently imprisoned for "inciting subversion of state power", and of course, the Internet.

The Internet, born in the 60’s under U.S. militaristic oppression, has grown in fame quickly since it’s birth. In the mid-90’s The Internet had reached international acclaim and quickly became a house hold name. The Internet began providing every culture and every person with a voice to be heard. With countless applications and communications services release by the internet, governments, and human rights advocates alike were able to quickly communicate. By the late 90’s the internet was a force to be reckoned, and had began efforts to bring the younger generations into it’s mix, providing every user the ability to use communication devices like Instant Messaging, E-Mail, and a new trend, blogging. It’s development of LiveJournal, a social network, was a big step in collecting the masses and would soon grow at an astounding rate. By 2010 the Internet has become unstoppable. Social networking services like Facebook and Twitter have been able to stop wars and provide data for relief organizations. The Internet was a huge player in the U.S. efforts in the Iran Election. While the Internet is directly responsible for opening up a new type of crime, cyber-warfare, it’s rather minor considering all the good, and the intent mind you, the internet has brought to the world in it’s short 50 years.

We, as in the collective human race, as well as governments and committee's founded by or elected by the human race, have obviously lost touch with reality entirely. At the beginning of this year, U.S. supreme court ruled that organizations should be allowed to provide unlimited resources and funding for “special interest” in U.S. government. This includes all domestic AND foreign organizations, and basically gives them the right to do whatever they please in government and elections, granting them similar power as if their were considered “persons”.

Now, only a short period of time after this completely outrageous decision, something as broad as “The Internet” gets a nomination for Nobel Peace Prize. Why the nominee didn’t consist of something a little more narrow like the founders of twitter/facebook, or the founders of Google, hell even Steve Jobs would be a better candidate, at least he can provide an acceptance speech.

Will you be looking forward to the internet’s gleeful cries if it wins the Nobel Peace Prize? How would you feel about The Internet co-hosting the Grammy’s with political figure Corporation aka “The Man” next year? Spot me your opinion, since mine is already tainted.