According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the “open Internet” is more in danger of being controlled and restricted now than ever before.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin noted foreign governments trying to control online access and communication and the entertainment industry, with its support of proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation.
Brin also mentioned tech giants like Facebook and Apple, both of whom he suggests have “restrictive” policies that help to close the Internet rather than open it up.
Regarding governments, he added: “We’ve seen a massive attack on the freedom of the Web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we’re seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.”
With an Internet dominated by Facebook, Brin suggests a Google may not have been created: “You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the Web was so open.”
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