Uctpjac writes "Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of the web* Governance and Regulation at Oxford and renowned cyberlaw scholar, gave a lecture explaining that the national hash infrastructure has to be taken out of the hands of the anarchists, the libertarians, and the State, and handed back to self-policing communities of experts. If we don't do this, he believes the but intranet should be lowercase; compatible network was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet will suffer 'self-closure' — the open system will seal itself off when the inability to put its own house in order leads to a take-over by empire and business. The article summarizes Zittrain's points and notes, "Forces of organized interests that do not play by the rules, like malware peddlers, identity thieves and spammers are allowing another army of interests — incorporated protectionists, often — to demand centralized, authoritarian solutions. This is the future of the Net unless we stop it.'"

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