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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 29 April 2013 08:18 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] If most
people agree, they should be able to provide examples.
Yet, I am still waiting for specific examples. Examples
of both what specifically is meant by “reduction to
closed or proprietary online spaces”, and evidence of
the “growth” of this problem.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><b><i><span
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So far, the only concrete reference I have seen comes
from Mawaki, and it is a good example of why I am
resisting this statement. Mawaki claimed “that the
internet experience of more and more users --maybe the
younger ones-- is becoming limited to particular apps,
notably those of social media such as Facebook (FB).”
Now, I am not a Facebook member and do not particularly
like that type of online community. But I would quibble
with the definition of Facebook as “closed,” in that
joining is free and pretty much open to anyone, and
using it does not prevent anyone from accessing anything
else on the internet. FB does not alter or in any way
enclose the Internet protocols or standards.</span></i></b></div>
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I can't say if this is what Mawaki meant, but there are many
mobile Internet services around the world (including mine, Maxis
here in Malaysia) that give you free or cheaper access to Facebook
than to other social networking websites. Also, devices such as
phones and game consoles typically allow a gatekeeper to approve
what apps you can use to access the Internet. For example I have
an iPhone, and I want to use a Bitcoin client on it - but I can't,
because Apple decided I can't; and I want to install a Bittorrent
app on my PS3, but I can't, because Sony decided I can't. I
presume that you have read Zittrain's "The Future of the
Internet", which although becoming dated now gives many other
examples.<br>
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These are certainly very significant instances of how the
proprietary aspects of the Internet are overtaking its commons/
public goods aspects. And the movement in this direction continues
unabated, in fact with increased force. We now have this new
proposed web standard that seems to incorporate DRM possibilities.
Recently there was the IETF RFC controversy whereby the market
character of the Internet seemed to be given a decisive precedence
over its collaborative possibilities.... ( Milton, I know no number
of facts is going to be enough for you.)<br>
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As for the much touted idea of 'balance' here, it is always a
relative context. Which way we should move to reach where we want to
go depends on where we stand at present. How we balance depends on
which way we seem to be falling. (Here, the issue of 'whose
interests we represent' also comes into the picture, because
different groups and people are being affected differently by these
changes. Yes, I know, some love it. )<br>
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OECD's Principles for Internet Policy Making focus strongly on
intellectual property rights and their enforcement, with little to
say about its commons/ public goods nature. So are increasing number
of 'global' policy instruments promoted by rich country governments.<br>
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These are the most powerful forces shaping the Internet today. And
they are shaping it in a manner that furthers their narrow geo
economic interests. Our strategies and activities need to address
this specific context/ problem. It is this problematic and growing
dis-balance that we had sought to correct through a civil society
statement, taking it that civil society is supposed to intervene on
the side of the more marginalised sections. But if the caucus does
not want to recognise this problem and to do something about it,
that is fine. It could however result in losing considerable
credibility among progressive groups. <br>
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