TIL Desk/Business/California/ Chief Executive Officer of Google Sundar Pichai has warned about threats to the free and open internet in several countries where the flow of information is being restricted. In an interview, Google’s boss said that “many countries are restricting the flow of information, and the model is often taken for granted.” He also addressed controversies around tax, privacy, and data and argued that “artificial intelligence is more profound than fire, electricity or the internet.”
Referring to different laws being followed in countries relating to online content which makes “different internets” for different countries,”… it is more a step back… I think a free and open internet is a tremendous force for good and we take it for granted a bit…,” he said in response to a question about “different internets” – a reference to countries having increasingly disparate laws about online content and what kind is “offensive”.
“In each country now there is a debate what speech is OK and what should be allowed… in some ways I think we pull back from the bigger picture (which is that) many countries around the world are restricting the flow of information and drawing much more rigid boundaries,” he said during an exclusive interview at the Google headquarters at Silicon Valley in California.
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