For centuries now we have been aware of the dangers of having different forms of power in the same hands. The principle of separation of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary has been in the democratic countries' Constitutions for as long as there have been Constitutions.
Yet, while these sane principles are well established in our political environment [1], we fail to apply them to other aspects of our society where they also belong. As I'm a geek concerned with the future of the electronic world, I'll tell you about this — but I'm confident that one can find plenty of examples.
Network neutrality is a fundamental principle of the Internet. It is the simple fact that all content, all sources, all recipients, all protocols must be treated equally on the Internet. One cannot alter the quality of the transmission of some content — whether in its advantage (prioritizing it) or not (slowing it down or even blocking it completely) — based on its origin, its destination, its contents or the protocol used to transmit it. I'd go as far as claiming that from the day the network stops being neutral in any of these ways, it cannot be called the Internet anymore.
And in this sense, I'm not sure the Internet still exists.
With Comcast providing on-demand video streaming, what prevents them from slowing down Netflix traffic to their broadband customers, in order to gain some competitive advantage?
As Google is trying to become an ISP, what tells us they are not using their infrastructure to the advantage of their own services? Claiming "Don't be evil" is one thing; not being evil is a whole other task. A task we cannot just blindly trust anyone to be carrying. And I'm not even talking about political threats on net neutrality, which are overwhelming too.
What Montesquieu established two and a half centuries ago for the political ruling of our lives, it is now our turn to generalize for everything likely to be abused. Power doesn't mean politics — power includes politics. We have to be aware of all powers, and not let them slip into anyone's hands.
[1] Although there is still some debate on how they are applied, see for example Maitre Eolas about the independance of the judiciary in France (link in French).
Image: Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, 1728.
"You can laugh about everything, but not with everyone".
So far, it can be something like the 30-year-back time travel 
First, the 64k category. As you've guessed, entries in this category are less than 64 kilobytes. These are generally as long as unlimited demos, and feature the same kind of scenes — although with a more limited range of audio and visual effects, of course. You can see the loooong and still amazing 
Then, the 4k category. Yes, that's true, you can see amazing stuff in no more than 4096 bytes. The 4k scene has risen a lot in the few last years thanks to the huge possibilities offered by shaders in modern graphic cards. They're generally shorter and focused on a few specific effects, but still impressive. I'll direct you to stuff ranging from 
And so far I've only told you about the PC scene. Demosceners also love oldschool platforms, especially Commodore 64 — see as an example 
Update : Evoke is over, and Ctrl-Alt-Test won the 64k competition and the newcomer award with 
The principles, the very nature of the Internet are simple. Bytes are created and remain free and equal in rights. And this is not just a geeky whim — there are no more reasons to discriminate electronic data than the good old paper mail.