Nothing may have had as bad of a year as the Internet.
The Internet has been hit with an onslaught of criticism and suffered several setbacks in 2016: from relinquishment of American control over web address management, introduced surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, social media backlash for users’ hate speech and terrorist affiliations, to censorship and fake news.
The Obama administration let a contract with an American corporation expire at the very end of September, so that a central portion of Internet governance control could be handed over to an international bureaucracy.
Now countries like China, which have vastly different perspectives on freedom of speech than America, will have a say in how Internet addresses will be managed. – READ MORE
2016’s Assault On The Internet Was Brutal. Will 2017 Be Worse?
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