Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin
April 16, 2012 | Source: The Guardian
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
The threat to the freedom of the Internet comes, he claims, from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the entertainment industry’s attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of “restrictive” walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms.
Comments (2)
by Cybernettr
Of course Brin would see Apple as a threat to freedom, since Google sponsors Android, an Apple competitor. A tad disingenuous if you ask me.
by Bill Katakis
The larger threat is from Google and it’s paying clients tracking and creating personality profiles for millions/billions of web users, same as FB and Apple and anyone else with the resources to do so , including governments. The distinction between these corporations and government developing personality profiles has vanished. They are one and the same via their cooperation with each other. Then there’s the Chinese “weaponizing” hardware/firmware in internet devices to act against us on command. It will take a constitutional amendment that guarantees privacy. EULA’S are a joke, if you don’t agree with the EULA, and nobody does, then you can’t use the internet. This has to change.