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The Internet Is Freedom, and It Is Under Attack

Posted On: Dec 01, 2017

Dec. 1, 2017 | OPINION | In the beginning were the words. This is the story of the long progress of humanity from the early days of opposable thumbs to the first farmer, the first builder, the first cured disease, the first literature in its second edition, the first time secondhand information was shared as a means of expanding knowledge, the first time anything was read for the first time by a second person who then passed it on, because they could. This is about the internet as it exists today…As far as the powerful are concerned, easily accessed information is the single most dangerous thing in the world. Truth-Out