How To Internet and a Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

In the readings from Jenny Odell and John Perry Barlow that I did, there were a couple different ideas I found really interesting that may or may not be that related to one another. Odell's piece talks of the conception and propogation of the internet, the "world wide web" that we now all find ourselves inhabiting, that the vast majority of people only thought of as a new fangled tool to compliment pre-existing ways of life. Odell provides a comprehensive breakdown of how she views the ever changing usage of the internet, from user-to-user interaction to the progression of corporatized "how to"s.

Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace comes from a much different perspective, in a time of uncertainty around the direction of the internet's rapid growth, when the United States passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barlow advocated for the internet to remain a space for complete freedom of thought and expression, ungoverned by any one authority, with the power in the hands of the members of the internet.

I also read over Joanne McNeil's Search and Destroy, and find that the idea of how Google imposes a restrictive power on the archival properties of the internet, purely for the sake of increased efficiency and scaling for the corporate engine. I feel like this relates well to Barlow's call to keep the internet as an unregulated space of freedom. Similarly, Odell's article writes of the growing disconnect of mediated media, with the internet becoming "appropriated by business".

Do you believe the internet should be any more or less mediated than it already is?