Monday, October 20, 2008

Internet Censorship

"Lessig spoke at the Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, this year and he told the audience 'There’s going to be an i-9/11 event which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.'

"He also claims that he spoke to the former government Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke and he found out that the Justice Department was waiting for a cyber terrorism event that would be the catalyst for implemented the 'cyber equivalent' of the Patriot Act, to which Lessig nicknamed the i-Patriot Act."