Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways? Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet and Googles Internet evangelist, made this radical suggestion while he was sitting next to me on a panel yesterday about national tech policy at the Personal Democracy Forum. Maybe he was inspired by the presence of one of the other panelists, Claudio Prado, from Brazils Ministry of Culture, who kept on talking about the importance of embracing Internet peeracy. (Altho....
