The internet as we know it today has evolved from an ideology of a few researchers. Vennevar Bush, who proposed the Memex system in 1945 that made it possible to link information sources via interactive computing. Ted Nelson, who thought of the hypertext system, which links texts with keywords in a very different way and that we still use today. And Tim Berners-Lee who brought the dreams of this information network into reality with his World Wide Web. The ideology of these men was that information should be available everywhere, for everyone, at any time, for free. Everyone should participate in this World Wide Web and should be unrestricted in any use. From this freedom, that is more and more restricted by some governments, hackers from all over the world have developed better software and even helped making the internet what it is today. Hackers are the watchdog of the ideology of this freedom and get there support from internet users from all over the world. The Aibot hacks wouldn't be so successful if the Slashdot community didn't support it at the time.
The internet shouldn't be made more 'secure' by the government. The internet as we know it, is designed as a network which gives everyone the opportunity to participate. Restricting these 'rights' would be against the ideology from which the internet is build. We should see the internet as a public domain, where users are responsible and should watch for cybercrime and fight it. Let's think of securing the internet by participating as users instead of giving this out hands to the government.
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The internet as we know it today has evolved from an ideology of a few researchers. Vennevar Bush, who proposed the Memex system in 1945 that made it possible to link information sources via interactive computing. Ted Nelson, who thought of the hypertext system, which links texts with keywords in a very different way and that we still use today. And Tim Berners-Lee who brought the dreams of this information network into reality with his World Wide Web. The ideology of these men was that information should be available everywhere, for everyone, at any time, for free. Everyone should participate in this World Wide Web and should be unrestricted in any use. From this freedom, that is more and more restricted by some governments, hackers from all over the world have developed better software and even helped making the internet what it is today. Hackers are the watchdog of the ideology of this freedom and get there support from internet users from all over the world. The Aibot hacks wouldn't be so successful if the Slashdot community didn't support it at the time.
The internet shouldn't be made more 'secure' by the government. The internet as we know it, is designed as a network which gives everyone the opportunity to participate. Restricting these 'rights' would be against the ideology from which the internet is build. We should see the internet as a public domain, where users are responsible and should watch for cybercrime and fight it. Let's think of securing the internet by participating as users instead of giving this out hands to the government.