The Switch Blog reports on a Pew survey of 1400
experts on the biggest threat to the Web.
It isn’t cyberterror or malware.
It’s overreaching regulation by governments and greed by companies. There’s a story by Hayley Tsukayama in the
Washington Post Switch blog, here.
Some of the biggest threats can come from political
pressure from legacy corporate interests, as we said with SOPA, as a great
overreach to eliminate piracy. Another
could be a gross erosion of downstream liability protections in areas like Section
230, or copyright. Overreach could occur
with attempts to eliminate or find child pornography by filtering
everything. And the Internet may split
into different zones because of filtering and control by countries, and a
demand that some data be hosted within the countries. We already see that with attempts to stop the
Arab Spring, and with censorship in China.
The Benton Foundation has a similar story here. Pew’s report, “Net Threats”. by Janna
Anderson and Lew Raine, is here. We may be fortunate to have as much freedom
as we have now.
Bill
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