Comments on: Who Controls the Internet? http://fstutzman.com/2006/04/27/who-controls-the-internet/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BD http://fstutzman.com/2006/04/27/who-controls-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-96 BD Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:46:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=237#comment-96 I did a lot of research on the ethics and implications of the internet back in the day. Still it would seem, without direction - without structure a large body cannot prosper. <br/><br/>So do we sacrifice the expanse of the WWW for some direction as to tap its potential or do we doddle along progressing in every which way so we can have a sink of information with no plug hole.<br/><br/>Someone controls it, just at a height that we can't really determine; and it is a control so light handed it makes little visual impact... I did a lot of research on the ethics and implications of the internet back in the day. Still it would seem, without direction – without structure a large body cannot prosper.

So do we sacrifice the expanse of the WWW for some direction as to tap its potential or do we doddle along progressing in every which way so we can have a sink of information with no plug hole.

Someone controls it, just at a height that we can’t really determine; and it is a control so light handed it makes little visual impact…

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