{"id":4306,"date":"2011-02-22T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2011-02-22T03:27:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:27:20","slug":"decentralizing-the-internet-so-big-brother-cant-find-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/decentralizing-the-internet-so-big-brother-cant-find-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can\u2019t Find You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; That&#8217;s the title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/16\/nyregion\/16about.html?_r=4&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1298214118-cAxrkJHWjR9UV+l5YKcnCQ\" target=\"_blank\"><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> about a proposal by Columbia law professor Eben Moglen to &#8220;rebuild the Internet&#8221; (without government this time) for greater privacy and individual control.<\/p>\n<p>Moglen has created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomboxfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Box Foundation<\/a> to help develop this ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear comment from you tech-oriented readers on how (or whether) you think this would work and how it might change the Netiverse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got three article deadlines this week, followed by a very special project. So blogging might be &#8220;lite&#8221; for the next few weeks. To keep the silence from getting deafening, I&#8217;m prepping some blogitude in advance (this one&#8217;s being put into the queue on Sunday afternoon, though it won&#8217;t appear until Tuesday). I&#8217;ll try to keep small bits coming, and might even make time for something &#8220;heavier.&#8221; But don&#8217;t worry if a few days go by without a posting. <\/p>\n<p>If you really need a Claire fix, there&#8217;s always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgcmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DGC (Digital Gold Currency) Magazine<\/a>, which, if you go back to the 2009 and early 2010 issues, has (among other things of interest to hard-money and alternative-payment folk) a few of my lesser-known articles that might keep you happily occupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; That&#8217;s the title of a New York Times article about a proposal by Columbia law professor Eben Moglen to &#8220;rebuild the Internet&#8221; (without government this time) for greater privacy and individual control. Moglen has created the Freedom Box Foundation to help develop this ideas. I&#8217;d love to hear comment from you tech-oriented readers on how (or whether) you think this would work and how it might change the Netiverse. &#8212;&#8211; I&#8217;ve got three article deadlines this week, followed by a very special project. So blogging might be &#8220;lite&#8221; for the next few weeks. To keep the silence from getting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/decentralizing-the-internet-so-big-brother-cant-find-you\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can\u2019t Find You&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}