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[ NNSquad ] Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors
Battle for the Internet Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors http://j.mp/I3BV2B (Guardian) Zittrain's real worry is that "the personal computer is dead". His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" - people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens. Indeed, the US government has found some: it has backed projects such as "the internet in a suitcase", which could set up a telecommunications network inside a country separate from the existing infrastructure. Zittrain acknowledges such projects, but for the wider world, he says, "convenience is great. I wouldn't call for a return to the green blinking cursor of [Microsoft's pre-Windows] MS-DOS or the [text-based] Apple II. But we should build architectures that permit innovation and experimentation if consumers wish to go 'off-roading'." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad