The first amendment is just making things look a little slower here in the us. In china, and this is india and all these other countries, they're putting more and more restrictions on what you can do online. And it's not fun, but that's exactly what will happen. The idea that information ought to be controlled, people ought to be told the right thing,. These tools ought to be leveraged to control what people see and think and do.
Are we in the middle of the IT revolution, or on the verge of something new?
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- Ben Thompson: The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The End of the Beginning — Stratechery
- John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace — EFF
- Ben Thompson: Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Internet and the Third Estate — Stratechery
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