<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Reference: <<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/511276/free-speech-in-the-era-of-its-technological-amplification/">http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/511276/free-speech-in-the-era-of-its-technological-amplification/</a>></span></div><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is an interesting perspective on Freedom of Speech in the Internet era </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">by Jason Pontin of MIT's Technology Review magazine. It's informative </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and entertaining due to its style, done in the manner of a letter to the late</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">British philosopher John Stuart Mill. I do not know if I can agree with the </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">conclusions (which I will poorly summarize as there can be no middle ground, </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">US businesses on the Internet need to operate based on US principles for </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">freedom of speech and not do business in those countries which have otherise</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">incompatible systems), but in any case, the logical build-up in the article </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">definitely provides an interesting framework for thinking about freedom of </div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">speech and the Internet.</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">FYI,</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">/John</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></div></span></body></html>