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Blog, Internet - Monday, May 21, 2012 12:51 - 7 Comments
The marvellously destructive power of the Internet:
A rant by Mark Newton
blog You might have noticed that at Delimiter we love an epic rant, and as we’ve previously written, former Internode network engineer Mark Newton has form in this area. Whether it be on the issue of the Internet filter, the National Broadband Network or other topics, Newton is wonderfully unafraid to tell it like it is, and that’s one reason we love him (in a platonic sense, of course).
With that in mind, we commend you to Newton’s latest rant, cautiously entitled: Why the Internet is a marvellously capable gatekeeper destruction machine. Some choice tidbits from the full rant, posted on the AusNOG mailing list:
“Doesn’t matter what realm you’re talking about, the Internet takes the power previously enjoyed by gatekeepers, devolves it to end users, and poses the question: ‘Now what … ?’
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