The Web is the first place where the mass populations can publish their own thoughts and opinions without recourse.  While many societies are not democratic, we must look very carefully at how the large service providers, such as Google have put profits before the human rights of certain cultures.  The irrepressible campaign has begun a petition aiming to stop the censorship and attempts to control access to the world wide web of information.  Sign up at irrepressible.info to support the campaign to give the same freedom of expression that we take for granted to these repressed countries.

I am not usually one for jumping on a bad wagon like this, but I believe that if starts to move forward, the free nature of the web will change for us all.  I want to continue as we are.  The debate on the quality of the web content and its dangers will continue but if we give control to big business we will all be worse off.