Vents in Egypt and Tunisia prove that although the internet can’t be destroyed per se, it can be more or less “turned off” – a fact that has some digital-rights activists questioning the centralized, top-down organization of internet service providers. Julian Dibbellis a tech journalist and author of The Shadow Web, an article in the March issue of Scientific American outlining growing efforts to provide an alternative network that can’t be powered down.
A Web With No Off-Button
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