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Ep. 238 - New York Times Finally Against Censorship

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Is This a Utopian Idea of the Internet?

The original utopian idea of the internet was that it would help tear down national boundaries and give citizens abilities. We saw a version of that but then governments wanted more control over what happens online. They're they're kind of stuck in a tug-of-war there Okay, yeah, all right So let's just finish out the article I thought the ending the last couple paragraphs were interesting The author Kind of wants to have it but on the other sense I feel like they want You know they want to grant government lots of power to To shape the internet which basically means to tell big companies what they can and can't say online or allow people to say online.

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