IN THE ATLANTIC, REBECCA ROSEN INTERVIEWS REBECCA MACKINNON about her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. “The fact that anybody can create their own software programs and use them on the Internet, or plug new devices into the Internet, without having to obtain permission or license from any authority is the result of conscious decisions by the people who first created the Internet: decisions that could have been made differently if those creators — working mainly in the United States in the late 60’s — had been working in a different political and cultural context.”