Cambridge University Professor Ross Anderson "By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind"
He envisions a peer to peer network that would allow users from all over the world to anonymously post news stories about issues that the mainstream media ignores.
According to the BBC article "File-sharing to Bypass Censorship" Anderson believes that in today's media "only news that's reckoned to be of interest to Americans and Western Europeans will be syndicated because that's where the money is."
His vision is for people all over the world to be able to find news that is important to them that they might otherwise not hear about. If people from all over the world could post the events going on in their community or country on a world- wide network focused on broadening the worldview many issues, events and viewpoints that are commonly ignored could take center stage. These new technologies could potentially provide everyone a voice in the news.
Anderson believes that certain material, like child pornography, should be censored. He believes that Internet watch groups are more than capable of handling this type of material. But he states that no material that a government finds inappropriate will be censored.
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