Did Internet Pioneers Blow It When It Comes To Free Speech?

Increasingly,I’m hearing from politicians, activists, and people like my journalistfriend who say that maybe we 1990s-era internet activists blew it. Thestory goes that we were so shortsighted in our focus on things likeinternet free speech and digital privacy that we overlooked a wholespectrum of long-term threats posed by digital technologies, thecompanies that sell them, and the governments that deploy them. Thisperspective suggests that the internet freedom my colleagues and Ichampion