Experts worry about the future of the net
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/06/2014 11:58 AM
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Internet experts worry about various factors will put a damper on the open Internet we know today.
The Pew Research Center polled 1400 experts to gauge their views on the future of online freedom.
Sixty-five percent of those polled are hopeful that there will not be “significant changes for the worse and hindrances to the ways in which people get and share content online” between now and 2025. The answers were the experts "hope", not their prediction.
The respondents are worried about:
• governments employing content blocking and filtering “to maintain security and political control"
• online surveillance programs that will erode users’ trust in the services they use
• “commercial pressures that will endanger the open structure of online life.”
It was a poll, not a survey, so the results may not jive with online users as a whole.
The Pew Research Center polled 1400 experts to gauge their views on the future of online freedom.
Sixty-five percent of those polled are hopeful that there will not be “significant changes for the worse and hindrances to the ways in which people get and share content online” between now and 2025. The answers were the experts "hope", not their prediction.
The respondents are worried about:
• governments employing content blocking and filtering “to maintain security and political control"
• online surveillance programs that will erode users’ trust in the services they use
• “commercial pressures that will endanger the open structure of online life.”
It was a poll, not a survey, so the results may not jive with online users as a whole.
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