06/03/08

Open Internet please

The web was initially designed, by Tim Berners-Lee, to be an open exchange of information and ideas. When one group of people can control access to that exchange based on their own bias it becomes censorship.

That's just what the US Government has done with regards to Cuba. What's worse is that the sites it has blocked are European ones, where there is no embargo on Cuba.

The article mentions the fact that the US controls the top-level domain naming system (something I've posted on before). I think it's time for the UN to step in.