Nir’s Notes

By Nir Boms, The Jerusalem Post Aug. 21, 2007 The Internet – the free and open Web of ideas – has become the new symbol of freedom, or at least one of its more visible prophets. Howard Rheingold, a scholar of the early Internet era, predicted a utopian vision where the “electronic agora” would change [...]

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By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2004 Last month, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the creation of a new group to exert control over what has remained a rare bastion of freedom: the Internet. The group’s forum is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Its 40 members, all appointed by Annan, [...]

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