Will Fear Change The Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started

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December 14, 2015
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Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at Stanford CIS, predicts the internet will become more like TV in regards to regulation in this NBC News article. 

After the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, public figures including President Obama, Donald Trump and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for regulating online activity.

Could fear of violence change the Internet in drastic ways? And what might a more tightly controlled Internet look like?

“The Internet is moving away from a place where anyone can say anything and find any information they want,” Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told NBC News. “My hypothesis is that the Internet will become more like TV.”

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