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- Title
The Digital Imprimatur: How Big Brother and Big Media Can Put the Internet Genie Back in the Bottle.
- Authors
Walker, John
- Abstract
This article reports that during 1994-1999 when public access to the Internet burgeoned and innovative new forms of communication appeared in rapid succession, it was felt that universal access to the Internet would provide a countervailing force against the centralization and concentration in government and the mass media which act to constrain freedom of expression and unrestricted access to information. Personal computers, began to self-organize into means of communication as well as computation, indeed it is the former, rather than the latter, which is their principal destiny. Online services such as CompuServe and GEnie provided archives of files, access to data, and discussion fora where personal computer users with a subscription and modem could meet, communicate, and exchange files. Computer bulletin board systems, FidoNet, and UUCP/USENET store and forward mail and news systems decentralized communication among personal computer users, culminating in the explosive growth of individual Internet access in the latter part of the 1990s. INSETS: Funding Fourmilab: A Worked Example;Do you own the data on your hard drive?;Historical Precedent: Telephone Caller ID;Does "Computer Crime" Exist?
- Subjects
INTERNET industry; COMMUNICATION; MASS media; FREEDOM of expression; USENET (Computer network); ONLINE information services; WIDE area networks; COMPUTER users
- Publication
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2003, Vol 16, Issue 3, p24
- ISSN
1946-4789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12130-003-1032-6