Libertarian, or Just Bizarro? ‘Clyde Wayne Crews, the new director of technology studies at
the Cato Institute, the libertarian think-tank, …outline(s) his vision for what he
calls “splinternets,” or parallel Internets that would be run as distinct, private, and
autonomous universes.

Lamenting the flood of regulation over privacy, children’s safety, copyright, gambling,
taxation, and other issues on the Internet, Crews asks, “how about more Internets, not
more regulations?”

The Internet as we know it —- what people are already calling the “Big-I Internet” or the
commodity Internet — “is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons,” Crews said.’ Wired