Censorship: A Beginner's Guide by Julian Petley

Author:Julian Petley [Petley, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: Political Science, Censorship
ISBN: 9781780741383
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-01T02:03:02.191436+00:00

Keeping a grip

However, even by the time the new edition of Rheingold’s book was published in 2000, things had already changed considerably. Note, for instance, how Manuel Castells in his helpful encapsulation of the libertarian vision of the Internet is careful to use the past tense throughout:

Created as a medium for freedom, in the first years of its worldwide existence the Internet seemed to foreshadow a new age of liberty. Governments could do little to control communication flows able to circumvent geography, and thus political boundaries. Free speech could diffuse throughout the planet, without depending on mass media, as many could interact with many in an unfettered manner. Intellectual property (in music, in publications, in ideas, in technology, in software) had to be shared since it could hardly be enclosed once these creations were placed on the Net. Privacy was protected by the anonymity of communication on the Internet, and by the difficulty of tracing back the sources and identify the content of messages transmitted using Internet protocols.3

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