The World Wide Web was supposed to herald a new age of global freedom and free exchange of information. Instead, governments are poised to take more control over the internet than ever
When the web first started to boom in popularity in the mid-1990s, internet idealists argued that it heralded the end of state control over people's lives: information would be totally free and tha...
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