"The internet is broken and technology alone won't be enough to fix it"

Stop worrying about the privatisation of public spaces, says Owen Hopkins, because the biggest threat to our democracy is the internet.It's hard to believe the web is still just 30 years old. Despite the extraordinary ways it and the world have changed over that time, there's one early adage that still holds firm. Conceived by American attorney Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law, as it has become known, states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involv