Call to regulate the net rejected
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 28 August 2007
The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society's ills, said Vint Cerf, Google's net evangelist and a founding father of the network.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online.
"Most of the content on the network is contributed by the users of the internet," he said. "So what we're seeing on the net is a reflection of the society we live in."
"Maybe it is important for us to look at that society and try to do something about what's happening, what we are seeing"
He added: "When you have a problem in the mirror you do not fix the mirror, you fix that which is reflected in the mirror."
Couldn't have said it better. Everybody hates the censorship in countries like China, but still some think it's ok to censor when they are in control. What you can't see still can bite you.