Two things, really:
A transcript of the speech would really be appreciated. Not everyone has the time or bandwidth to watch an entire video.
And then this:
There’s a species of bottom-feeding contrarian that has sprung up in this century to decry the Internet as a system of oppression. Most of these men are people with some passing connection to the entertainment industry, which has spent the past 20 years demanding systems of Internet censorship and surveillance to help with copyright enforcement.
Please don’t do this.
People who criticize American, Canadian and, oh yeah, Bad Countries™ for using information obtained by companies operating on the Internet (like Facebook, Google & co.) to profile, harass and occasionally murder people are not necessarily the same people who want the bad old way of doing the content-creation business. Heck, sometimes they’re the same people you credit for keeping Internet Freedoms alive.
I mean, the biggest issue with regards to Internet surveillance is how governments brazenly do it, often aided and abetted by corporations that trumpet the “freedom to innovate” line when it suits them.
