There is no internet freedom without responsibility – Content Cafe Australia
Neil Turkewitzcontentcafe.org.au
There is no internet freedom without responsibility – Content Cafe Australia
The internet has become increasingly abused as a tool to undermine Citizenship, not unleash it.
The megapolitical logic of cyberspace suggests that central command-and-control systems that currently dominate the world’s large-scale infrastructure will have to be replaced by multicentric models of security with distributed capabilities so they cannot be easily captured or blocked by a computer virus.
The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
In its chaotic, open, and intensely creative origins, the internet offered individual empowerment and access, cross-pollination, almost limitless connection among and between Citizens everywhere. As a many-to-many medium, it asks more of us than television or radio or the printing press, equipping us to be active in the world, capable of representi
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