This article brought up a lot of points that I find frightening. Surveillance of internet users by governments isn’t anything new or shocking to me, and it’s no secret that everything posted on the internet isn’t private. However, this article brings up the extent to which governments, particularly the US government, are involved in internet use and regulation, and it’s reading about the regulation part that makes me feel nervous. Accessing information is one thing, but accessing or altering this information to do whatever a government wants to fit some sort of agenda is another. As net companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc) begin to dominate more and more of online space, information is more and more likely to be filtered, and with so much of information and even existence held on the cloud, it’s certainly a question of how much freedom the internet could possibly continue to have.
It’s interesting to see how the fate of the internet will play out, as it is becoming an indispensable part of our lives that no one is really sure what to do with.