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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Internet freedom doesn’t mean a free-for-all

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There was ‘a (then utopian) expectation that on the internet everything should be free’. Photograph: badahos/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Jonathan Liew’s elegy to honesty (Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft, 28 January)( was as elegant as usual. But he’s missed one crucial factor: the (then utopian) expectation that on the internet everything should be free – an expectation that, once normalised, has had a toxic effect on media right across the world.
Ed Freeman
London

• I note that the Guardian has “reached out to” the Kennedy Center for comment (Philip Glass withdraws world premiere of his Lincoln symphony from Kennedy Center, 27 January). Could it not have “contacted” the organisation instead? This would have saved two unnecessary words.
Stephen Chicken
Duns, Scottish Borders

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