<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But, just like with religion, where the experience and belief are strictly private, the same can be said about Internet. Different people see different things in Internet (even as technology) and they use Internet for quite different things. Even the same individuals at different points in time.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I really doubt that Vinton Cerf, as chief Internet evangelist for Google, Inc., has any difficulty understanding or supporting <b>property rights</b> on the Internet, at least when he speaks officially as the "public face" of Google. Indeed, many business figures in relation to the Internet support an aggressive expansion of property rights and property rhetoric in what might be called their "Occupy Cyberspace" movement. <br>
<br>Despite such aggressive assertions of property rights on the Internet, suddenly, when it comes to human rights on the Internet, Google and others have great difficulty conceptualizing rights in cyberspace?<br><br>What gives, when property rights are "natural" to cyberspace but human rights are not? Of course, at one level, property rights concepts flow smoothly onto something seen as a mere "technology" or "tool", while human rights concepts do not flow quite as smoothly. Yet, as I think we all know, understanding the Internet as mere technology is an over-simplification of the phenomena of the Internet, to say the least. <br>
<br>But, this oversimplification definitely works for the present purpose of facilitating the business expansion of entities such as Google by protecting their property rights and business expectations against any "infringement" by human rights claims regarding the Internet. Unfortunately, as I see it, Vinton Cerf is leveraging and thus bastardizing his status as a "Founding Father" of the Internet in service to Google's bid to dominate future cyberspace as its own fiefdom and Lordly domain.<br>
<br>Paul Lehto, J.D.<br></div></div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>