Dreams dashed as internet battered and Balkanised
Technology: We tried to create a free and open internet – it is anything but.
Rob O’Neill
Thu, 13 Aug 2020
Technology: We tried to create a free and open internet – it is anything but.
“The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow,” wrote Bill Gates and Colin Hemingway in Business at the Speed of Thought, published in 1999.
Flash forward a decade, and people are often rightly worried about using that town square. It is no longer a safe and