[governance] The Big Brother is everywhere now - Assange

[McTim]

On 12/2/11, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
> [The only difference now being we cannot really pretend these
> "omissions" on liberty are not there... from Apple's oops we did not
> know it was turned on, Google's drive-by piracy of WiFi data compiling
> Streetview or the US War on Terror grab of ALL SWIFT international
> financial transaction data... the net must be free, and there is so much
> of fiddling of deckchairs on the titanic... and meanwhile the arguments
> faced while these kinds of things were happening was "if it aint broke,
> don't fix it" (i.e. governance of critical internet resources and more!)

You are conflating many things here.  I would suggest that the
governance of CIRs has very little to do with net freedom.  How can
ICANN, for example, regulate the behavior of Apple, Google or SWIFT?


> and perhaps this will simply take a new guise....or perhaps not... if as
> Lessig said, technological choices (+stds) are effectively regulation
> then the scope of struggle is much larger... time to revisit my
> Parminder, Geist and Mueller on this especially as the reintier class
> seeks to reinvigorate controls in the name of preventing piracy while
> the weapons of mass distraction are deployed to ensure Big Brother makes
> some people more equal than others... of course this may just be
> conspiracy theory junk, right?]

If you want to enshrine Big Brother, there is no better way than to
give governments free hand to regulate the Internet.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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