I’m getting awfully tired of seeing this quote, so I think I’ll just respond to it right now:
... after all, wasn’t the Internet built on the founding principle of freedom of expression[?]
Uh, no. It was built on the founding principle of open-architecture communication. Your freedom to be a loud idiot didn’t enter into it. Thanks for playing.
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on 07/10 at 02:21 PM:The Internet was built as part of a government contract to create a network that was extremely difficult to disrupt. Thus; TCP/IP was born and the network was setup to “route around damage” (i.e. if a router gets taken out you’ll still be able to communicate).
So to summarize: The Internet was founded on the principal that interrupting communications between endpoints is unacceptable. This is the basis for the oft-used quote, “The Internet was designed to route around damage.“ This is why censorship is nearly impossible on the Internet… On the Internet censorship is damage.
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“Compatibility resistance is not and never has been a feature.“
on 07/10 at 02:30 PM:Actually, if you read the article I linked to, you will find this note:
It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.
I'm an IT security manager who has worked in various places around the world and in the US. If I told you more, well ... you know.
Hell, it was built for a CLOSED society, not an open and free one. Well, mostly. Some of the principles were pretty broad visions, but really it was more about academics being able to find and grab information quickly, not necessarily to allow every teenager a voice on MySpace or every blogger to tell all of us about their dog’s shit yesterday being rather especially shapely, like a fresh tube of cookie dough…