From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The web at 25, free flow of information or censorship.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. The web was invented 25 years ago by a British physicist

with a strong sense of Western values. Sir Tim Berners-Lee still envisions a free, open,

democratizing system of universal communication protected by a digital bill of rights. But in China,

citizen bloggers can be arrested.

Pakistanis can't watch YouTube,

and Russians can't read independent websites about Ukraine.

Censorship and privacy violations reveal the limits to the global village,

as the World Wide Web becomes truly worldwide.

Today's talking point, reintroducing an overlooked civil rights leader.

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Hello again, Mormon. I'll be back with To The Poet.

The web was invented just 25 years ago by a British physicist with a strong sense of Western values,

but it's China and India that are adding billions of new users.

What can be done about censorship?

As the World Wide Web becomes truly worldwide.

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