The History of the Internet: Surveillance and censorship were the aims from the outset

By RHODA WILSON

The primary goals of the internet have always been surveillance and control. Today, it is merely following its original design.

Internet (originally ARPANET) was born out of a Pentagon surveillance and counterinsurgency project. It was implemented by ARPA, a US Department of Defence research agency that we know as DARPA.

The effort to change the public perception of the internet from a military surveillance project to a promised utopian land of opportunity took about twenty years and a lot of work – and it worked like a charm – but surveillance has always remained at the centre of what the internet is about.

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