Save Internet freedom

Manipulation and censorship are advancing on the Internet and endangering freedom in cyberspace, warns the business paper Il Sole 24 Ore: "We know only too well what we can do for the Internet: We can liberate it from those who are trying to get rich on the ideas of others, who try to kill off debate and who cannot tolerate differences of opinion. … If we don't manage to win the battle, if might makes right, this will not merely mean the defeat of a particular profession or a newspaper but rather the end of free debate and the free exchange of ideas. This would entail a populism in which governments of post-modern democracies and authoritarian regimes alike would learn to manipulate search engines to their own advantage, to ignore or censor microblogs and to extinguish public opinion. Ominous signs of such developments may already be observed in the US and in Europe, as well as in China and in Russia."

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