From the article: "Politicians aren’t always especially
thoughtful about, or even familiar with, information technology…. So it was a
pleasant surprise to see the Obama administration recently take some thoughtful
and forward-looking positions on Internet policy…. of course, a sensible
approach to the Internet requires more than techno-utopianism. Technology has
no inherent moral value; it is a tool that can be used for good or evil.
President Obama implicitly acknowledged this when, several weeks ago, during a
speech at the Holocaust Museum, he announced a new executive order imposing
sanctions on foreigners who use information technology to carry out human
rights abuses—including strong steps against the Syrian intelligence agency and
a Syrian phone company, as well as the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and
Security." Read more
