Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators

The title is completely misleading, given that Wozniak concedes:<p><i>“Every freedom we have in the United States, every one of them, was given to us by congressional regulation. It’s called the Bill of Rights. That is what gives us our freedom and yet it was from the government. It was government regulation.”</i><p>Bottom line is that there will be regulators. The choice is between regulation by those that own the infrastructure or by a democratically elected government.

3 months ago Steve Wozniak said he is going to buy Facebook shares at "no matter what price"<p>I mean this guy just happened to be co-founder of Apple. He hasn't been with Apple for like 20+ years and hasn't done anything noteworthy for decades.<p>Does it really matter what he says?

If you have no safety in your sharing of information, you have no freedom.

I've found in my experience that gatekeepers to any system will always bubble up. It's almost evolutionary that someone controls the flow of things. The most you can hope for is that the gatekeeper be good-hearted and neutral.

I totally agree with what Woz is saying. I do wish that there were tools more readibly available built into our browsers filter content, but I think that is just an opportunity for tools like NetNanny, etc. if Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft (except for Bing), Google (except for Google search), and Opera aren't doing it.<p>I wish we had the same freedom here in HN, but we don't, and I'm not sure why: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385454" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385454</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pk0lW3oJ8#t=01m01s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pk0lW3oJ8#t=01m01s</a>

you gotta love that confirmation nod at the end of the interview

Oh Woz, you're so confused. You want the Internet to stay unregulated, yet are in favour of Net Neutrality?

Freedom is won with the barrel of a gun. You do not ask for rights, you get a weapon, and you point it at your oppressor and say: Leave me alone Or I will shoot you.<p>That is how freedom works, not with words. With actions.