Nor are governments scrambling to stop the Internet cutting out middlemen. Freeing trade, like new technology, causes change. That is how it boosts economic growth. Some of us lose at first, but eventually we all gain. Technology can be the friend of the people.
Nobody wants yesterday's medicine.
The information age is providing opportunities in education, health care, entertainment, enjoyment and employment never before dreamed of. On lonely atolls and distant villages, one can enjoy Pavarotti, get weather reports and teach ones children. Contrast - when I was a child, the hope of every working class family was a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In those days it cost a year's pay. Now, it's free on the internet or you can buy the CD with a week's social security.