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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
governance-request@lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.cpsr.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>parminder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday 28 January 2011
18:17<BR><B>To:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; Avri Doria<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR>Avri Doria wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4F80807A-2FF8-44DA-8460-00FE899CC00A@acm.org type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Hi,
This is all one reason while, though I think policy and Internet Governance moves are critical, we need to support the continuing development of technology that stays ahead of any government's ability to shut if off or block it.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>Or
any corporate's ability to take illegitimate rent by squatting over a commons -
and also to choose what political development - including revolutions - it will
support or not . <BR><BR>What is the way to support the continuing
development of 'such technology' that prevents such inappropriate
controls? <BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4F80807A-2FF8-44DA-8460-00FE899CC00A@acm.org type="cite"><PRE wrap=""> This is one reason also for protecting the notion of non centralized services and furthering their development.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>The question as to how do we support the development of non
centralized services is really one of the most important IG issues, because all
empirical evidence today points to the fact that we are moving towards more and
more centralized and monopolistic Internet services.<BR><BR>I suggest policy
interventions that ensure that there is no concentration of market power towards
monopolisation in any application area (google. facebook, twitter etc) and there
is adequate policy measures to ensure a decentralized architecture of the
Internet - ensuing against vertical integration across content, application and
infrastructure layers (net neutrality), search engine algorithms are
open, and social networking sites can cross access data to ensure there are no
lock-ins, <BR><BR>Who would take these required policy measures? Not the US
where most of these big companies are registered, because the social costs of
these monopolies to its citizens are weighed against the money that these
companies earn for the US economy. Then, who can take the required
measures ? <BR><BR>I once again suggest, this can only be some by
appropriate global governance systems for the Internet, Thus my interest in this
area, and my stated positions on various IG issues, But I am open to be
persuaded to alternative possibilities of ensuring what we all seem to want.
parminder <BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4F80807A-2FF8-44DA-8460-00FE899CC00A@acm.org type="cite"><PRE wrap="">a.
On 28 Jan 2011, at 06:16, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
</PRE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Sorry, McTim, this can happen in any sector in any country in which a
government decides to do so in a crisis situation, be it right, just,
democratic or, as in this case, dictatorial. When the USA invaded Iraq
all communications were cut except for the US military and the "embedded
media", just to quote a somewhat more extreme example. The USA
government has already explicitly mentioned moves to "shut down" the
Internet in a crisis.
So, it demonstrates nothing of this sort... We need other arguments to
keep our struggle for multiskaholder governance of the Net. Our major
worry regarding the "influence" or control of the State over the
Internet is what is happening on a day-to-day basis in major countries
(like the USA, with the COICA proposal, in France, in England etc) which
can in practice draw dozens of other countries' governments to the same
trend.
--c.a.
On 01/28/2011 08:55 AM, McTim wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">This is why its madness to comtenplate giving govts MORE control over
things Internety. Rgds, McTim
On 1/28/11, parminder <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"><parminder@itforchange.net></A> wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Today may turn out to be a historic day for Egypt...
Pl read below.
AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark<A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://bit.ly/gCJFHt%28AP/MSN%29">"
http://bit.ly/gCJFHt (AP / MSN)
"</A>The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong
control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of
them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called
'almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.'"
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