| Government doesnt control cyberspace, well, at least America doesnt try to. But since the PATRIOT act, they can now do so, under the guise of "National Security". Many places like Saudi Arabia and Iraq and Iran have very enormous firewalls in place so that people cannot access any opposing viewpoints of the regime. BT in Britain blocks site, but those make sense, as they are mostly child pornography sites and things of that nature.
To refute the idea that they were all pot smoking hippies, im going to give you some background. The internet as we know it would not be possible without two main factors. The technology of the internet itself was created by DARPA, and called DARPANet, DARPA was the secret research group of the government for a long time (mainly during the Cold War).
The second factor is the man who created the World Wide Web and who now runs the W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium, Tim Berners-Lee, recently knighted in the UK. Without him and the creation of the graphic browser, we wouldnt have all the great resources available to us.
"The reason we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none." -Michael Badnarik |