Google co-founder slams enemies of Internet freedom
Is Internet freedom nearing extinction? The openness and accessibility of the Internet is under serious threat, taking a battering from the combined forces of Hollywood, Facebook, Apple and countries like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Brin, who pushed for Google to stand up to China during a censorship fracas two years ago, admitted he had wrongly assumed that the freedom of the Web could not be stifled by an authoritarian government for so long. However, other countries have since followed China’s path to Web censorship. “I thought there was no way to put the genie