{"id":87,"date":"2004-08-08T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2004-08-08T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T13:03:24","slug":"end-of-the-internet-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/end-of-the-internet-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Internet dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, many of us were enthusiastic about the Internet in part because we believed that it opened up extraordinary opportunities for the left. The Internet could not be censored, we argued.  Censorship would be treated as damage to the system, and information would route around it.<br \/>\nBut a recent report from the Paris-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf.org\">Reporters Without Borders<\/a> makes for frightening reading.  Indeed, after spending only a few minutes reading it, you may well become convinced that the dream of a free and instant means of communication which governments would be unable to censor has turned out to be an illusion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe report tells us about some of the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221; &#8212; the kinds of regimes you just know are blocking free use of the web by their citizens.  A typical example would be Cuba, where in the words of Reporters Without Borders Secretary-General Robert M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, many of us were enthusiastic about the Internet in part because we believed that it opened up extraordinary opportunities for the left. The Internet could not be censored, we argued. Censorship would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}