Some people are missing her point. Many young people in politics have been misled and are actively fighting against privacy, encryption, and freedom of expression.
I personally believe that things will get worse before they get better. The momentum is on the side of the young people. The western world is already moving closer to the Chinese model -- that's been in progress for years.
Eventually there will be a backlash. And I think open distributed protocols, such as content-centric networking, will play a part.
But unfortunately, I would not be very surprised if the younger generation had to learn the hard way about the importance of things like freedom of expression. And as the author says, they are in the driver seat, in some ways, and we will all be dragged along for the lesson again.
Ultimately, there is a cultural imbalance that will need to be adjusted. But the adjustment is not what young people think it is. There is no truth fairy that can wave a wand and make all the bad facts go away. And appointing truth fairies will be deadly.
The culture has a tendency to enthusiastically distort facts to support one extreme political perspective or another. The answer is not censorship. The answer is to change the culture so that tendency which is practiced by all sides is no longer tolerated.
It's a subtle and difficult thing that humans may never get right. But there is a difference between open, nuanced and honest debate and the hysterical polarized rhetoric that is typical, and a difference between nuance/integrity and censorship.
To me both the east and the west have taken extreme cultural stances that are missing that subtlety.
I personally believe that things will get worse before they get better. The momentum is on the side of the young people. The western world is already moving closer to the Chinese model -- that's been in progress for years.
Eventually there will be a backlash. And I think open distributed protocols, such as content-centric networking, will play a part.
But unfortunately, I would not be very surprised if the younger generation had to learn the hard way about the importance of things like freedom of expression. And as the author says, they are in the driver seat, in some ways, and we will all be dragged along for the lesson again.
Ultimately, there is a cultural imbalance that will need to be adjusted. But the adjustment is not what young people think it is. There is no truth fairy that can wave a wand and make all the bad facts go away. And appointing truth fairies will be deadly.
The culture has a tendency to enthusiastically distort facts to support one extreme political perspective or another. The answer is not censorship. The answer is to change the culture so that tendency which is practiced by all sides is no longer tolerated.
It's a subtle and difficult thing that humans may never get right. But there is a difference between open, nuanced and honest debate and the hysterical polarized rhetoric that is typical, and a difference between nuance/integrity and censorship.
To me both the east and the west have taken extreme cultural stances that are missing that subtlety.