this platform because they know it can't turn against them.
We should learn from this past, embrace its lessons as foundational and preserve them in the future, because there's no guarantee that end-to-end will remain a principle of the Internet. There are plenty of people who would like to return to a design in which the network controls how the network is used. End-to-end is a choice made by the Net's founders, and one which we continually must defend.
Lawrence Lessig (lessig@pobox.com) is Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
