Could We Lose the Internet?
by Ian Mosley
No one ever believes me when I say we are going to lose the Internet. Everyone simply assumes that we’ll all be surfing the net forever. While we may not sink to the same level as Red China, which censors even Google search results, there are some alarming trends.
Our government has put up various trial balloons and stealth laws that government is using to deprive political and social critics of access to the Web. Now the lawyers are stepping in. Reuters reports that a web site which “…bills itself as the world’s most prestigious college discussion board” is now being subjected to a legal attack by two women who want to silence certain posters to the board. The article notes the “AudoAdmit site, widely used by law students for information on schools and firms, is also known as a venue for racist and sexist remarks and career-damaging rumors. Now it’s at the heart of a defamation lawsuit that legal experts say could test the anonymity of the Internet. After facing lewd comments and threats by posters, two women at Yale Law School filed a suit on June 8 in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Connecticut, that includes subpoenas for 28 anonymous users of the site, which has generated more than 7 million posts since 2004.”
Could the “racist and sexist remarks” possibly be accurate statements about how much racial and gender quotas may have helped certain people get into Harvard or Stanford while White males with higher GPAs find themselves going to their third choice of law school? (more…)