Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Ideology and policy: Notes on the shaping of the Internet (07 Aug 2004) However, the shaping of the Internet through national and major international policies has increasingly concentrated on facilitating and protecting its commercial aspects, without at the same time protecting non-profit, civil activities as well as those rights that enhance citizenship. Furthermore, there is an increasing attention to measures that criminalise once widespread practices of information exchange initially developed by communities on the Internet. Indeed, new efforts to control private behaviour introduces a radical shift in Internet policies, protecting commercial and private interests in a public policy framework. In this process, the participation of civil society actors remains sketchy, while the private sector becomes an equal next to state. Article URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/sarikakis/index.html Read 119 more articles from First Monday sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Refuting objections to a Global Rural Network (GRNet) for developing nations     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy