Jeff Chester and Steven Rosenfeld, Stealing The Internet, TomPaine.com, August 4, 2003. A dark vision of diminishing freedom of the internet. But the authors are not paranoids. Chester is the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy and Rosenfeld is an editor and producer for TomPaine.com. Excerpt: "The Internet's early promise as a medium where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged and the public interest can be served is increasingly being relegated to history's dustbin. Today, the part of the Net that is public and accessible is shrinking, while the part of the Net tied to round-the-clock billing is poised to grow exponentially." (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/06/2003 09:29:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
