Beschreibung:
<jats:p>In the hopes of technologists and optimists, the internet promised to connect humankind, to bring freedom of expression and creativity to all, to make institutions more open, equitable, accountable, and ultimately democratic. But malign actors exploited the net's openness, and institutions found themselves threatened in a borderless world they could not master. And so government and media are trying to regulate and restrain a phenomenon that is still too new to fully understand, without sufficient research and evidence of the harm they think they are answering. The internet is not, as it is commonly understood, a medium filled with content to be edited (or censored). It is a mechanism for connection that is enabling a post-Gutenberg, post-textual, post-mass society to relearn how to hold a conversation with itself. Government, media, and other institutions must create flexible, responsive, open frameworks not to eliminate allegedly harmful speech but instead to enable, improve, and protect the public conversation.</jats:p>