<div dir="ltr"><br>Michael Copps' article is indeed quite revealing on the FCC shadow role dwarfed by collusion between big high-tech industry and USG intelligence agencies. He mentions another article by Michael Hirsh, but the link is wrong. A correct link is:<br>
<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-america-s-top-tech-companies-created-the-surveillance-state-20130725">http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-america-s-top-tech-companies-created-the-surveillance-state-20130725</a><br>
<br>This latter article summarizes the evolution of the intelligence-industrial complex, from WW II up to the present NSA almighty control. The story exposes very well how NSA came to rely on top-tech industries by making them intimate partners in developing and operating the worldwide spying thing. The ending is somewhat muddy though. Is there any other future than an orwellian albeit unsecure world ?<br>
<br>Louis<br>- - -<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Devon Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devonrb@gmail.com" target="_blank">devonrb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Folks,<br>
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Below is an insightful article by former FCC Commissioner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Copps" target="_blank">Michael Copps</a>
on his experiences with national security interests while at the
FCC. Copps' experiences led me to ponder how civil society might
enter into a trusting multistakeholder negotiation knowing of these
close relationships between government and industry. Here's one
approach.<br>
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