<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Might be of interest to some…</div><div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw">http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw</a></b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Discussions surrounding the role of the internet in society are dominated by terms such as <i>internet freedom</i>, <i>surveillance</i>, <i>cybersecurity,</i> and, most prolifically, <i>cyber war</i>.
But behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an ongoing state-centered
battle for control of information resources. Shawn Powers and Michael
Jablonski conceptualize this <i>real</i> cyber war as the utilization of
digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert attacks
against another state’s electronic systems, but also, and more
importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a
state’s economic and military agendas.</div><div><br></div><div>Moving beyond debates on the democratic value of new and emerging information technologies, <i>The Real Cyber War</i>
focuses on political, economic, and geopolitical factors driving
internet freedom policies, in particular the U.S. State Department's
emerging doctrine in support of a universal freedom to connect. They
argue that efforts to create a universal internet built upon Western
legal, political, and social preferences is driven by economic and
geopolitical motivations rather than the humanitarian and democratic
ideals that typically accompany related policy discourse. In fact, the
freedom-to-connect movement is intertwined with broader efforts to
structure global society in ways that favor American and Western
cultures, economies, and governments…. </div></body></html>