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Endangered Freedom of the Internet

INTERNET: Governements and now Enterprises are seeking to limit free access to the World Wide Web

Source: Jon Berkeley / The Economist

In his bestseller 'The World is Flat', American Journalist Thomas L. Friedman describes the globalization as a three step process: First, nations globalized themselves by allowing trade among each other. Then, enterprises got globalized by forming their sourcing and sales networks around the globe. And third, the individuals globalized, enabled by unlimited information exchange over the Internet. 

 

 

This third step seems endangered now: After - for example - the Chinese, Iranian or Vietnamese regimes' rigorous controls over contents in Web, (American) companies seek to limit the free flow of information over the Web. Certain content should - for example - be transported faster (with more bandwidth), than other.

 

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