I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
From Ethan Zuckerman
The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
Google doesn't really forget.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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