The Internet’s unique, many-to-many mode of communication should be a powerful democratizing force. Oppressed groups should think twice about endorsing greater powers of censorship for state authorities, since such powers seem likely to be used against them.
Predictor: Donham, Parker Barss
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 paper presented at the Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age, Parker Barss Donham, a staff writer for the Canadian edition of Reader’s Digest magazine, writes: ”The Internet’s unique, many-to-many mode of communication should be a powerful democratizing force. Oppressed groups should think twice about endorsing greater powers of censorship for state authorities, since such powers seem likely to be used against them.”
Date of prediction: November 26, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Censorship/Free Speech
Name of publication: The Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age
Title, headline, chapter name: An Unshackled Internet: If Joe Howe Were Designing Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/doc/sfsp/donham.txt
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