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Google co-founder says Internet freedom facing greatest threat than ever | Search giant Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that the principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever. During an interview
with The Guardian, Brin said there were 'very powerful forces that have lined
up against the open Internet on all sides and around the world'. "I am more worried
than I have been in the past. It's scary," the paper quoted him, as saying. Brin
stressed that the threat to Internet freedom comes from a combination of governments
increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the
entertainment industry's attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of 'restrictive'
walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software
can be released on their platforms. He expressed more concern over efforts of
countries such as China , Saudi Arabia and Iran to censor and restrict the use
of the Internet. Brin, however, warned that the rise of Facebook and Apple, which
have their own proprietary platforms and control access to their users, risked
stifling innovation and balkanising the web. According to the paper, he also slammed
Facebook for not making it easy for users to switch their data to other services.
"Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years," Brin said.
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