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The end of the "information highways"

2020-06-02T21:49:37.948Z


By attacking Twitter and wanting to restrict the right of web platforms, Donald Trump tramples on this heritage.


"I am the initiator of the creation of the internet." These few words, spoken by Al Gore on CNN in March 1999, earned the American Vice President in the campaign to be joked about on TV talk shows. They did, however, contain some truth. The former senator from Tennessee, who liberalized the telecommunications sector and provided a framework for the development of the first web services, played a central role in the creation of the American "information superhighways", a phrase he coined in a famous speech in 1993.

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By attacking Twitter today and wanting to restrict the right of web platforms, Donald Trump tramples on this heritage. Since the internet was going to liberate knowledge, create jobs, but also establish the geopolitical domination of the United States, it was necessary to grant the most favorable conditions possible to this "new economy". The objective was shared both by the Clinton Administration and by the Republicans of Newt Gingrich, the

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Source: lefigaro

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