{"id":2422,"date":"2003-05-20T03:25:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/the-internets-dying\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T03:25:03","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T10:25:03","slug":"the-internets-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/20\/the-internets-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet’s dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Register<\/a> takes perpetually angry law professor Lawrence Lessig to task for bemoaning the imminent death of the Internet:<\/a><\/p>\n

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What’s dying here isn’t The Internet – it remains as open as ever to new software and new ideas. Remarkably, the consensus that upholds the technical infrastructure survives, in the form of the IETF, despite self-interested parties trying to overturn it. What’s dying is the idea that the Internet would be a tool of universal liberation, and the argument that “freedom” in itself is a justification for this information pollution. It’s probably reached a tipping point: the signal to noise ratio is now too low. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to go with the Register on this one, even though the Professor claims to be misunderstood<\/a>, and mumbles something about an “End-to-end Internet”, which apparently affirms a belief that the Searls\/Weinberger World of Ends<\/i><\/a> paper was somehow credible. But it didn’t actually represent a proper understanding the Internet in the past, present, or future for reasons I’ve already beaten to death.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Register takes perpetually angry law professor Lawrence Lessig to task for bemoaning the imminent death of the Internet: What’s dying here isn’t The Internet – it remains as open as ever to new software and new ideas. Remarkably, the consensus that upholds the technical infrastructure survives, in the form of the IETF, despite self-interested … Continue reading “The Internet’s dying”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-D4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}