The issue of unregulated and uncensored web content seems to be becoming more and more of an issue.
Firstly, China attempts to regulat Google's search results - to the extent that Google has decided to pull their Chinese presence out. Now, the Vietnamese (government(?)) is accused of initiating cyberattacks to take down opinions contrary to the "party line".
This whole issue of censorship and freedem of speech - it is just too much to fathom the right answer.
The scary thing is that I think that this will even get more convoluted.
To what extent is the Web an open forum? Is it a place for idealism when one states that freedom of speech is the be all and the end all, or are there limits - must there be limits?
Defamation would clearly not be acceptable - or would it? If someone "attacked" (for instance) John Travolta's involvement in Scientology and made inaccurate claims - is this right? Is it justified? Can it be regulated in some manner? If not, where does this lead us? Do we end up with a Wild Wild West mentality where anything goes? Or are there "reasonable restrictions" (and how would this be quantified?) as to what is out there in the binary landscape.
I"m not sure that we'll ever have an true answer on this one.
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