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Can we believe the net?

"Can we believe the net?" or "Should internet we censored?" or "Should government agencies step in to regulate the internet?" In last few days I came across these topics in various forms of media. So thought of keying down my views (might be bit confusing :) ). To me all of them are quite interrelated and the basic question to be asked is - how much should we believe the information we get on the internet. Today many of us fall back on the internet to get any kind of information. It’s the cheapest, fastest and most accessible source of information. I will not say we do not get genuine information from the internet, but that is limited to a small set of sites for which we know owners. But there are billions of sites for which we have no idea about their owners or who is behind the content in them. But still many such sites might be useful for our information quest and who knows they can become a trusted source in the long run. Anybody can put any kind of co...