{"id":1463,"date":"2012-04-21T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oss.org.mt\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-04-21T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T07:15:40","slug":"is-the-internet-becoming-less-open-webpronews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Is the Internet Becoming Less Open? | WebProNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/is-the-internet-becoming-less-open-2012-04\">Is the Internet Becoming Less Open? | WebProNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;\">Although the issue of Web openness has been mostly quiet of late, it was revived after Google\u2019s<\/span><a style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0068d2; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/about\/company\/facts\/management\/\">Sergey Brin<\/a><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;\">\u00a0made some\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0068d2; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/apr\/15\/web-freedom-threat-google-brin\">powerful statements to the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em><\/a><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;\">. According to him, the freedom of the Internet is under a greater threat than it has ever been before.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 25px; quotes: ''; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>\u201cI am more worried than I have been in the past,\u201d he tells the Guardian. \u201cIt\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px;\">Brin also indicated that he and fellow Google co-founder Larry Page would not be able to build their search engine in the current Internet environment given restrictive players such as Facebook. He categorized both Facebook and Apple as \u201cwalled gardens\u201d saying they have too many limitations within their services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px;\">As one can imagine, Brin\u2019s statements have gained a\u00a0<a style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0068d2; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/the-backlash-on-sergey-brins-comments-begin-2012-04\">considerable amount of criticism<\/a>. What\u2019s more, his perspective has also reignited the debate over what true openness actually is and what real threats lie with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Internet Becoming Less Open? &#124; WebProNews. Although the issue of Web openness has been mostly quiet of late, it was revived after Google\u2019sSergey Brin\u00a0made some\u00a0powerful statements to the\u00a0Guardian. According to him, the freedom of the Internet is under a greater threat than it has ever been before. \u201cI am more worried than I [&#8230;] <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=1463\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-nB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}