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NEWS > TECHNOLOGY > INTERNET HOARDING STARTS TO PEAK AS FCC AND UN SEEK CONTROL
INTERNET HOARDING STARTS TO PEAK AS FCC AND UN SEEK CONTROL
December 21 2010
Washington, D.C. – When the World Wide Web was first created in 1989 there was no way to predict the ubiquity it would eventually enjoy. Much like other developments such as the telephone or the car, there was no grand vision for the medium and no 
way to predict what would eventually happen. As with all such inventions, the web took on a life of its own, spreading and propagating well out of the control or vision of its creators and become what it is today.
Despite that rapid growth and near sentience, the principles that defined the early days of the web remain more or less in place today. The passing of information and the notion that the web should be open and free are both ideas that pervade web culture, define it many ways, but are things that some see as dangerous developments. In its nascent days corporations and governments were as in the dark as to the future of the medium as were its creators, but now that the web, and the internet in general, have become essential parts of our day-to-day lives it has become clear that some kind of control is needed. With entities like Apple and Microsoft starting take control of the web through apps and increased focus on control from government bodies, many fear that the days of the free and open medium are coming to an end, prompting many to try and horde for the future.
“We aren’t quite at a crisis stage but people are starting to feel the fear. When that starts to happen inevitably the momentum starts to pick up and fear kind of replicates itself. It’s very similar to a stock market crash. One person panics and that produces more panic and it cascades,” said one internet expert. “We expect tight controls in places like China or North Korea and even Venezuela isn’t much of a shock but when the FCC comes out, or the UN starts talking about government regulation we have something else entirely.”
Recently Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared control over the web. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has long laid claim over the medium he decided he invented.
“We see it in this WikiLeaks scandal. It’s exactly a crisis like this that people can use 
to show the people that regulation and control is necessary. Before it was just a nuisance and it was difficult to get people behind control and domination of the medium, but now it affects the real world,” continued the insider. “Ultimately that means that controls are coming to western nations, countries that favour free speech, and that is going to cause a lot of panic amongst free thinking people. I can bet that over the next few months we are going to see huge rises in web traffic as people try to download everything they can before new rules limit their access.”
The U.K. government has tabled a proposal to ban all pornographic content from the web. Adult material has long been credited for the rise in popularity of the medium.
“We are very much at a crossroads and the harsh reality is that we as the average people may be powerless to do anything. The internet is like many other things a utility. It has pipes and tubes and that has to be paid for like water and electricity and so we are subject to the people who provide those things,” said Scrape TV Technology analyst Ken Kevins. “The internet isn’t like air which as yet no one has been able to figure out how to regulate. The internet is privilege not a right and business and government will always see it that way which means that very soon the web we see will change dramatically. Sites you loved will vanish forever and all we will have are memories.”
Most websites are still currently open for business.
Martin Philton, Technology Correspondent
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