gated community

Do You Want a New Internet?

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 17, 2009 at 2:48 pm PT

The lack of security and privacy online has some technology experts pushing for a do-over on the Internet, according to a Sunday Week in Review article in the New York Times. “What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a ‘gated community’ where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety,” writes John Markoff.