For a long time, Google co-founder Segey Brin thought that you couldn’t. He thought that the internet was a force that had been unleashed upon the world, and no authority could ever put an effective control on it. But now, he says, he’s not so sure. In interview with the guardian Brin talks about how he thinks that the free internet it is about to go through a dangerous gauntlet that might have the potential to break the world wide web as we have come to know it.
Brin points out three major factors that could start restricting the internet state actors like China, Hollywood and it’s anti-piracy efforts, and companies like Facebook and Apple that put themselves in between users and the information on the internet. We seem to be coming to a real fork in the road with the internet. SOPA, PIPA,CISPA it seems like legislation to change the equation of information on the internet isn’t going to stop coming, and neither supporters or detractors are willing to budge an inch on some of the most basic philosophical questions at stake. Megaupload wont be the last site to come under the fist of government intervention and groups like Anonymous seem to only be getting started in their opposition to those same forces.
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