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World Service,01 Jun 2010,18 mins

Controlling the internet

Business Daily

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Governments and companies want to control the net. For example, Apple controls the iPhone and restricts the ability of outside creators to put their own software on it. Harvard's Professor Jonathan Zittrain wonders if the original ethos of the worldwide web is under threat? He has views on what can be done about it. Plus Jane O'Brien in Washington on a battle over internet access.

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