Against the first visionaries of the network and its utopia of a completely free and irregular Internet, cyberspace is about to become "the most regulated place we have ever met." Such important issues as privacy in communications, the possibility or not of sharing data, of remixing information and the extension of freedom of expression depend today on the thread of the technical and political decisions that are configuring the new Internet. The reason for this enormous control potential on cyberspace is not only in the legislative power of the State, but in the architecture (code) of new technologies. Today, therefore, the absence of a political, open and massive discussion about these issues no longer produces a default freedom. On the contrary, leave the business groups and the State free to produce custom technologies. Employing and extending this necessary discussion is the main ...read more