Unlimited Information And Free Access? Turns Out It Was A Problematic Idea

The Palo Alto Consensus held that American-made internet communicationtechnologies (both hardware and software) should be distributed globallyand that governments should be discouraged from restricting speechonline. Its proponents believed that states in which public discoursewas governed by “everyone” — via social media and the internet — wouldbecome more democratic. – The New York Times