Have We Underestimated Internet Harm?

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00:00John, do you think that perhaps as the internet has exploded over the decades, have we as

00:07a society underestimated how harmful the internet can be?

00:13I don't think there's any doubt about that.

00:15And I could give you a long, long list of quotations from some of the early engineers,

00:21people like Vint Cerf, the people who developed the internet starting in the 1960s, going

00:27on to the explosion with the World Wide Web emerging in the late 1980s, early 1990s, in

00:34which they said they had no idea that the internet was going to turn out the way it did.

00:39Remember, the internet began as a technology to allow academics, principally scientists

00:45in American and British universities, to exchange their research papers with each other rather

00:51more quickly than had been the case up till that point in time.

00:54Nobody anticipated the possibility that the internet would turn out the way it did.

01:00And we're now having to retrofit safeguards into it to protect not just children.

01:06There's lots and lots of other people who've been harmed and injured by scams and all kinds

01:11of things.

01:11People's life savings, pensioners' life savings taken away by robbers.

01:17And it wouldn't have been possible for that to happen if, in the earlier days of the internet,

01:22these extremely rich business people in Silicon Valley, if they had thought and paused to put

01:30in greater security, greater checks and so on, none of this need have happened.

01:35And that's why governments are now having to act to protect their citizens from these

01:40unanticipated excesses.

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01:49Now I did not have saidgressions in here, in the last day.

01:56Together you're going to have an opportunity that progression negative all the spirits that

01:59wars, over the control of these students.

02:03And they think that, as you said, is there'sKit explaining the initiative.