World Wide Web: Whom Was It Designed to Catch?

The primary goals of the internet have always been surveillance and control. Today, it is merely following its original design.

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Amid attacks on the First Amendment, Missouri v. Biden could be one of the most important civil rights lawsuit of our times

• While today’s obnoxious surveillance and censorship are new, they are a feature of the Internet, not a bug

• Internet (originally ARPANET) was born out of a Pentagon surveillance and counterinsurgency pro…