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I think he is trying to mitigate the medium in which the access to information happens (the internet in this case) and make sure that when we think of human rig
by cyanbane 15y ago
I think he is trying to mitigate the medium in which the access to information happens (the internet in this case) and make sure that when we think of human rights we think of it in a broader sense of what we should have access to, not how we have access to it.
- _delirium 15y agoYeah, I see him as attempting (perhaps unsuccessfully) to articulate some timeless principle that "access to the internet" is the current, 2012-era implementation of.
- cyanbane 15y agoIn the most non-tinfoil-hat way I can say it, when people like Cerf try to agnositcize the medium like I think he is doing here, it makes you wonder what type of future he is already envisioning. In his view, does the net get over-regulated to the point of creating fragmented darknets and pocket-nets in which this information is dispersed in the coming future, which is the reason that he is trying to downplay the medium in which we consume this info? In regard to him just "waxing poetic" I think that stuff (cryptically?) written like this shows a lot more about what the future-thought by the author is, rather than stuff that is just some fluff/patterned response to regulation he doesn't agree with. I could also totally be off here ;)