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Google fears Internet freedom is threatened
2012-04-16
The rules of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet's creation are facing their greatest-ever threat, the founder of Google Sergey Brin claimed in an interview released by Britain's Guardian paper on Monday. Brin asserted the threat to liberty of the Net came from a mixture of factors, including inflating attempts by presidencies to regulate access and communication by their subjects. Brin claimed endeavours by the entertaining industry to put pressure on robbery, and the upward thrust of "restrictive" walled gardens like Facebook and Apple, which firmly control what software can be released on their platforms, were also leading to bigger limitations online. "There are exceedingly strong forces that have lined up against the open Net on all sides and round the world," Brin was quoted as asserting. "I am more worried than I've been during the past. It's scary." He said that he was concerned by efforts of nations like China, Saudi Arabia and Iran to censor and restrain utilisation of the Web . Brin announced the upward thrust of Facebook and Apple, which have their own exclusive platforms and control access to their users, chanced stifling invention and balkanizing the web.
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