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Putting the Internet Genie Back in the Bottle.
posted by scubacuda on Tuesday October 28, @08:46AM
from the like-it-used-to-be dept.
Civil Liberties John Walker has written a detailed article on why he's less enthusiastic about the Internet than he was a few years ago.
Over the last two years I have become deeply and increasingly pessimistic about the future of liberty and freedom of speech, particularly in regard to the Internet. This is a complete reversal of the almost unbounded optimism I felt during the 1994-1999 period when public access to the Internet burgeoned and innovative new forms of communication appeared in rapid succession. In that epoch I was firmly convinced that universal access to the Internet would provide a countervailing force against the centralisation and concentration in government and the mass media which act to constrain freedom of expression and unrestricted access to information....Computers and the Internet, like all technologies, are a double-edged sword: whether they improve or degrade the human condition depends on who controls them and how they're used."
A forum for the article can be found here .

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