According to Internet guru, John Gilmore, “The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.”
The technologies that provide anonymity to the paedophile and the terrorist also protect the political dissident and the whistle-blower. In that sense, Internet open records is analogous to free speech. In order to be certain of hearing the words of Martin Luther King, David Duke must also have a voice. You take the good with the bad, and fortunately the good outnumbers the bad.
Viewed from Gilmore’s perspective, the Internet may be seen as the greatest community builder created by man.
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