This is the golden age of the internet, a time of glorious anarchy where information is free and anyone, rich or poor, can blog their views to the world. But government and big business are moving in - the clampdown has started.

The lure of controlling all that we see and all that we think will be too much for some governments and big businesses. But the more they try and corral people into a corner and tell us what to do, think, and buy, the more people find ways round it. We are not all the same, and some of us are quite capable of making our own decisions about things that are important to us, without any outside 'direction'. I think this is dangerous because Government control, seeing what we're doing, viewing our emails and storing them for god-knows how many years is dangerous. It's nice being able to be a bit of an anarchist, to do ones own thing. Look at China, where their internet is filtered and controlled just so that the people don't get access to new ideas and perceived risks.


Guardian Newspaper: Government Input in the 'free' internet