Thus, Web sites can still collect information effortlessly, but most of the Internet s users joined the digital community at a time when the Internet pioneers rationale for such information aggregation had been all but forgotten. This may explain why information collection practices integral to the Internet s founding vision may appear sinister to newcomers. Today, consumers who are dissatisfied with the information-sharing practices of the Internet can create private Internet subsections to address their concerns. Internet service providers do not have to provide unfettered access to the Internet, and Web sites and servers do not have to connect to the same access lines. These private solutions have not occurred to consumer advocates who wish to end private communication entirely through government regulation.
Government is historically the worst violator of individuals privacy.
To encourage it to oversee a private information association would be an error of cataclysmic proportions. Individuals' privacy can best be preserved by furthering private associations, not inhibiting them.