http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
Certainly one of the most attractive aspects of the InterNet was its reputation as a technology providing liberated freedom of speech, since it turned the old saw about a free press ["a press is only free to whomever has the gold to own one"] on its head. Increasingly, however, a variety of developments have called this bright promise [which at its most anarcho-libertarian probably was fools gold] into question.
This on-line publication by an experienced and concerned observer: "The Digital Imprimatur" gives its plot away in its subtitle: "How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle". Increasingly, alas, it does look like this is going to happen, and there is SFA we can do about it.
A more generalized view of this, which essentially concludes that we will sell our souls for a mess of pottage, can be found here:
http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3606168&p1=0
Posted by jho at October 15, 2003 02:56 PM