Experts worry governments, 'commercial pressures' will undermine online freedom

JMH · Jul 7, 2014

Internet experts hope the Internet has plenty of good days ahead of it, but are still worried that various factors will put a damper on the open Internet we know today. That’s the takeaway of a new study from the Pew Research Center, which polled 1400 experts to gauge their views on the future of online freedom.

The poll, which consists of a single question and an open-ended response, indicates that 65 percent of those polled are hopeful that there will not be “significant changes for the worse and hindrances to the ways in which people get and share content online” between now and 2025.

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Experts worry governments, 'commercial pressures' will undermine online freedom

JMH

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