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Avri Doria wrote:
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<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>
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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>
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What is the way to support the continuing development of 'such
technology' that prevents such inappropriate controls? <br>
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<pre wrap=""> This is one reason also for protecting the notion of non centralized services and furthering their development.
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<pre wrap="">a.
On 28 Jan 2011, at 06:16, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
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<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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<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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<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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