Technology will not be to blame if Americans fail to encompass
this system within the political tradition of free speech. On the
contrary, electronic technology is conducive to freedom. The degree of
diversity of plentitude of access that mature electronic technology
allows far exceeds what is enjoyed today. Computerized information
networks of the twenty-first century need not be any less free for all
to use without let or hindrance than was the printing press. Only
political errors might make them so.
Ithiel De Sola Pool. Technologies of Freedom.
Harvard University Press, 1983 p. 231.