The dangers for the future of the Internet

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The dangers for the future of the Internet -

Pew Research appointed 4 "Net threats" that the Internet experts fear as they look to the future of the Web. Pew has complied this list by making a "Canvassing experts' survey that they sent to thousands of those who are known as technology builders, analysts and industry experts

Threats net experts fear are :.

  1. measures taken by nation states to maintain security and political control will lead to more blocking, filtering, segmentation and the balkanization of the Internet.
  2. trust evaporate in the wake of revelations about government and corporate surveillance and probably more oversight in the future.
  3. commercial pressures affecting everything from the architecture of the Internet to the flow of information will endanger the open structure of online life.
  4. efforts to resolve the TMI (too much information) problem could overcompensate and effectively counteract content sharing.

experts in this survey noted a broad global trend of Internet regulation by regimes that have faced protests and intensified surveillance of Internet users. They noted that countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey blocked access to the Internet to control information flow when they saw the content as a threat to the current regime. China is known for its "Great Firewall", as Internet censorship by most foreigners, including those in this prospecting

Read more on the net threats - Pew Research Center

http: // www. .pewinternet.org / 2014/07/03 / net-threats /

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