{"id":5795,"date":"2011-05-27T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:56:03","slug":"the-difficult-debate-on-internet-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5795","title":{"rendered":"The difficult debate on Internet regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The internet cannot exist in some undiscussable and  untouchable  dimension of human activity. It is a human creation. It  affects human  lives in all sorts of increasing ways. Morality and the  rule of law  should apply on the internet as elsewhere in human conduct.  As such, it  is an absolutely proper subject for governments to  consider, though  naturally with sensitivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To argue for controls over the internet may not be cool. But the   internet was surely not meant to be this way. The geniuses who created   the modern web and made it so exciting did not do so in order to create   the largest pornography bombardment in human history, to have a global   email system weighed down by spam, to encourage hostile hacking into   national security secrets, to embolden sectarian bigots to violent   threats or mere gossipers to say ill-considered things under the   protection of pseudonymity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/may\/26\/internet-controls-cameron-sarkozy\">a piece<\/a> by Martin Kettle in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221;. He makes some good points and  raises issues which have exercised me for more than a decade. I&#8217;ve  spoken and written on Internet regulation including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Internetregulation.html\">this speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The internet cannot exist in some undiscussable and untouchable dimension of human activity. It is a human creation. It affects human lives in all sorts of increasing ways. Morality and the rule of law should apply on the internet as elsewhere in human conduct. As such, it is an absolutely proper subject for governments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}