Comments on: Ignoring Government http://versionthis.com/~npilon/2008/07/23/ignoring-government/ An approximation of super-polynomial thinking Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen] http://versionthis.com/~npilon/2008/07/23/ignoring-government/#comment-20 Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen] Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:10 +0000 http://versionthis.com/~npilon/?p=72#comment-20 Lessig's work is well worth the attention of anyone seriously interested in engaging in governmental change. His comments here, especially, are interesting - especially in the context of how much freedom we are potentially given with the use of the Internet - and Lessig's statements about the potentiality of the government taking over the Internet in an authoritarian fashion in the next decade (according to Fortune, covering his statements today). "He said he believes this digital disaster – a major hacker attack or other act of cyber-terrorism in the next 10 years – will prompt the U.S. government to clamp down on Internet freedoms in an online parallel to the Patriot Act." Lessig’s work is well worth the attention of anyone seriously interested in engaging in governmental change. His comments here, especially, are interesting - especially in the context of how much freedom we are potentially given with the use of the Internet - and Lessig’s statements about the potentiality of the government taking over the Internet in an authoritarian fashion in the next decade (according to Fortune, covering his statements today).

“He said he believes this digital disaster – a major hacker attack or other act of cyber-terrorism in the next 10 years – will prompt the U.S. government to clamp down on Internet freedoms in an online parallel to the Patriot Act.”

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