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Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.

In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.