The Internet of the future will revoke the right to lie (and to tell the truth)

Identification technologies on the Internet suggest a future where the relationship with truth and lies has changed forever.

It is a mistake to equate the fight for individual privacy with the State's fight for security.

What matters about technologies is not their purpose, but the scope of their fair applicability. The Internet of the future could be regulated by a global database that associates people's real-world identity with their virtual identity on the network. A proponent of such regulation like Bill Gates argues, although not without reservation, that freedom of expression is not an unquestionable principle. That it is not an axiom.

For the entrepreneur and technologist at Microsoft, the boundaries between freedom of expression and disinformation are blurred. Especially in the United States, where the notion of the First Amendment is deeply rooted and there seem to be no exceptions to its application. Gates rightly says that freedom of expression combined with the anonymity that the Internet provides is a risk factor and a renewable source of deception and misinformation. Paraphrasing him, freedom of expression and anonymity on the Internet give “license to lie” and to say anything.

From this perspective, should there be exceptions to the unconditional defense of freedom of expression? Bill Gates sees a future where there should be. Where digital identification technologies will act as a layer of the Internet capable of regulating and filtering the behavior of individuals.

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