October 19, 2006

We must keep the wwwinding road open

Sir, Lawrence Lessig as one of the leading voices in this issue is so right when in “Congress must keep broadband competition alive” (October 19), he urges us to forbid “business models that favor scarcity over abundance”. No one would question that the internet represents potentially one of the most important roads toward a better future. Just see how far we have come, in such a short time. It would be a real shame, bordering on criminal, to go for the fast buck and allow any kind of tollbooths that difficult the access to it, before we have even really begun to understand what could lie behind its next curve.