"Counter-revolution" calls it "The Economist " alarmed by the attempts of balkanization Internet through a planned and aggressive fragmentation of the network by those who, perhaps to avoid the obligation to react, like to call "big powers." Only fifteen years ago, says the editorial, exploded for religion a digital paradise of direct democracy - a religion that Apple still manages to sell its "iQualcosa" - "You have no Sovereignty Where We Gather, "he wrote (1996) the" Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace " John Perry Barlow in his A Cyberspace Independence Declaration .
But now accounts reflects the magazine, are made by governments, IT companies and owners of the networks, which attempt (perhaps under the guise of pornography whose persecution violates the sanctity of net neutrality), the fragmentation of the virtual protected islands and aligned to their needs and, above all, to those who should not be closed of the game. Facebook is already an example of it innocent, but so are more or less forced the retention of the services provided by an application or un'Amazon or Google. Pierre Levy recognize here the "evil of the North" for whom "the space of the market wants to rule the roost on the area of \u200b\u200bKnowledge."
This freedom is born thanks to the silence, years of university connectivity "concealed", but now that he has revealed to the world, caging is likely, "All I know is As these high walls will be sadly ...», Jonathan L. Zittrain of Harvard University.
[pre-print for " The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 3-4/2010]
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