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A term coined by Clyde Wayne Crews,
director of technology studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, to
describe new, unregulated versions of the internet on which people can
behave as they choose without fear of intervention. Rather than creating
more regulations, he argues, we should create more internets, which would
run as private, autonomous networks free from concerns about
pornography, gambling and copyright issues, for example. Although
the term itself is new, the idea is not: several companies have set up
private, internet-like networks for special-interest groups, and the
internet2 initiative is based on its own private backbone. |
