Anthony Barnett (London, OK): According to this report in the American Prospect, Barak Obama has come out for openness, assisted by Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons and a large team of web wise men and women.
"I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality," Obama told the Google staffers. "The Internet is perhaps the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way."
In addition to committing to neutrality on the web, the candidate also laid out his pledges to support policies that encourage greater diversity in media ownership, expand access to broadband, and use technological innovation to address concerns about the economy, health care, climate change, energy, and immigration.
This is a much healthier approach than creating large, insecure centralised and supposedly confidential databases. I wonder what the Prime Minister's first guest at his country residence, one Rupert Murdoch will say?
Hat tip to Kanishk Tharoor over at Terrorism and Democracy
