internetnews.com: Lessig Makes Plea For Read/Write Internet

“Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig warned that today’s
fast-growing, free-wheeling Internet is threatened by network
providers who want to control innovation and commerce on the
Internet much the way AT&T once controlled the phone
networks.

“Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, Lessig
said society has to decide if it wants to continue down the current
path of a ‘read-only’ Internet or embrace what he called a
‘read/write Internet’ with broad access to content and the ability
to legally build on the creative works of others…”

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