A Digital Iron Curtain Descends Over the Internet

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A Digital Iron Curtain Descends Over the Internet
Why free speech on the web - as we once knew it - will be over within a decade.
February 1, 2019
Daniel Greenfield
 

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

A generation of economic pressure failed to regulate the internet. Outraged movie studios and record companies managed to cripple some file sharing pioneers, but broke their teeth on Google’s YouTube. Dot coms like Amazon, Google, Cragislist, eBay and Netflix casually wiped out entire retail industries from the local paper to the video rental place, costing tens of thousands of jobs. And nothing.

No amount of pressure from business interests could close down the internet. Politicians were still too invested in a vision of progress fueled by the growth of something that they did not understand.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272705/digital-iron-curtain-descends-over-internet-daniel-greenfield

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Very true. The companies are so intent on 1)being the only service provider and 2) placating suppressive regimes. It will eventually become "Here's what you are allowed to see". The beauty of the Internet was there was no trash can. Places like StormFront were allowed to exist for the same reason porn sites existed. Now SF is gone. In 10 years, Big Brother will be in charge of the Internet.