Seen by many to be as significant as the invention of printing, the World Wide Web makes it cheap and easy to access information. To put something on the Web costs very little compared with printed paper. There are no editors and few censors. And anyone in the world can access information from anywhere else.
It is this ability to cross boundaries that is so worrying for many governments. It seems that the riots against free market ideas in London and Seattle at the beginning of December surrounding the World Trade Organisation's summit, owed much to the internet being used by various groups to call people on to the streets. No longer can governments control the flow of information in and out of their countries. This can damage repressive regimes which formerly controlled minds by controlling information.
Freedom for the gospel . . .
And, of course, the gospel is free to wing its way around the world to hitherto restricted areas.
