Freedom of the internet There's quite a bit swirling about these days that impacts deeply on the freedom of the internet. If you wanna consider me unpatriotic, fine but I'm a big fan of fair and the idea of things being overrun by U. S. cultural imperialism didn't appeal to me. There's some talk now about the 'net becoming fragmented and losing the universality that was a big part of it. I watched an interview the other day of Brewster Kahle. He talked about his impression that once someone could gain control of a part the of internet, they'd be able to work their way back strangling it a bit at a time. I put that into the context of concerns I've seen about the backwards flow of the China effect on the internet.

The EFF and I have a lot of concerns about what's going on here with the 'net. We need to work hard to make sure the 'net stays free. This post @Rconversation points at some possible shortcomings on our part but it remains clear that the U.S. is the one that can and should stand up to keep the web a place of intellectual and political freedom.  ¶ 10/02/2005 08:00:00 PM