The accessibility and flexibility of the Internet is a double-edged sword. A distributed web makes it easy to publish content and link to it, but it also means that this content is by no means permanent: any given server or page can disappear or change at any time.  (For example, the U.S. federal government was […]

[I feature this thoughtful contribution from Leonid Grinberg, who’s been working with me this summer at the Berkman Center.] In his famous dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell conceived “Newspeak,” a language specifically constructed to make it impossible to express any thoughts that are contrary to the interests of the state. One can think of […]