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I think the Internet could have one controller, like the UN for Internet... today Google and other big companies are the Internet owners, but we cannot know what they are really doing with our data and all of those pages are flowing over their networks... Google Search does make a very big police ruler on the Internet... a web site success depends 90% of Google search result... so... if Google does not like you... your web site will be penalized and you cannot do anything... I read that their techs could control the incoming visits flow on-line... so... I think no company have to be in control... Internet is getting bigger, with mobile stuff and other new tools... Internet is becoming more present... and necessary.

Excellent article and you bring up some very good questions that need answering.

Jason, I think think you've nailed the issues in your analysis, and also put your finger on the one scarey thing that large systems (like government) shudder to allow, which is "uncontrolled", unregulated behavior in the chaos of free access of the sort the net offers. The hazard of groups, group-think, and the stifling control of power elites is very real in any bureaucratized system, and no less real a threat when it comes to the regulatory fate of the Internet.

I think the real challenge about the technology convergence is not what it offers us in terms of tech capacity, but how it compels us to change and grow in regards to social interactions and perhaps even social systems. Can the dinosaurian old-school system that is our government morph enough to come to terms with the new thing that is blossoming out of the fertile ground of the net convergence? Only time will tell, but thanks for highlighting some of the issues involved.
(By the way, I only just stumbled across your writing by chance, but I think you write thought-provoking things. I'm sharing this site with friends.)

-Teramis

I don't think any one source should have control of the type of content is on the internet, I mean I'm not for certain types of content but there should be free speech on the mater whether I agree with it or not. Policing content and the web is kind of like policing the media or what I see - that's a bit communistic and very suppressive.

If there's a more loaded question out there it can only be, "Does this make me look fat?"

There si no right answer here either, or at least - we won't know what it is until a decision has been made and we've seen what happens. Or - maybe we still won't know.

I think anyone who thinks they know for sure what the right answer is doesn't really know the question.

Chris

Back you up 110%
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