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A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom movements, born in reaction to the increasing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals. The Internet was created by hippies while being financed by the military! This improbable clash of cultures gave birth to a space of freedoms that was impossible to censor or control. However, this is what a certain number of political leaders have been trying to do for years, pushing hackers and defenders of freedoms to enter the political arena. NETWORK UNDER SURVEILLANCE Richard Stallman, the inventor of free software, Rick Falvinge, creator of the Swedish Pirate Party (the first of its kind in the world) or Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London: through interviews with these freedom 2.0 activists, the authors of the documentary humorously and vigorously denounce the attempts to regulate the Internet by governments and multinationals, and reveal the often conflictual relationship that persists between the players in web culture and public authorities. Hosts, access providers or simple Internet users, all are likely to find themselves in the crosshairs of the justice system, or even the secret services, under the cover of protecting copyright and defending national security. A counter-history of the Internet shows how these hackers, more pioneers of the Web than pirates, were dispossessed of a space for exchange that they helped to develop, by States and companies anxious to transform the Web into a network under surveillance. Director: Sylvain Bergère