Google’s Sergey Brin: Web Freedom Faces Greatest Threat Ever
April 16th, 2012You know that we’re in deep shit when Sergey Brin sounds like he’s been reading Cryptogon.
Via: Guardian:
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world”. “I am more worried than I have been in the past,” he said. “It’s scary.”
The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the entertainment industry’s attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of “restrictive” walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms.
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Powerful interests already control our conventional media in order to control and influence us. It’s just a matter of time before they figure out how to do the same with the Internet – the last bastion of free thought and discussion.
We need a new, free and open point to point, peer routed, device centric, ipv6 based “outernet”, where all one has to do to join is to put up an antenna and connect with ones neighbors, to supplement the proprietarily routed, infrastructure centric, ipv4 based “internet.”
See http://freenetworkfoundation.org/?page_id=683/networking/the-outernet/
Hello Kettle? This is the pot. You’re black.