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<DIV>Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into the
context of free trade vs protectionism.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ip@listbox.com
href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">Dave Farber via ip</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 05, 2015 6:45 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ip@listbox.com href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism
(via Evgeny Morosov)</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: "Mark
Stahlman via Digital Life" <<A
href="mailto:dl@listbox.com">dl@listbox.com</A>><BR>Date: Jan 4, 2015 1:02
PM<BR>Subject: DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny
Morosov)<BR>To: "Dave" <<A
href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</A>><BR>Cc: <BR><BR
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<DIV text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><A
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty"
target=_blank>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty</A><BR><BR>
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<H1>Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the
US?</H1><SPAN
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov" rel=author
target=_blank>Evgeny Morozov</A></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Guardian Egyptian Web','Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">Beijing
and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access –
but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital
sovereignty</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><SPAN>Saturday 3 January
2015</SPAN><SPAN>19.04 EST<BR><BR></SPAN>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Guardian Egyptian Web','Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FLOAT: left; FONT-WEIGHT: 200; COLOR: rgb(230,113,27); DISPLAY: inline-block"><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: text-top; DISPLAY: inline-block">R</SPAN></SPAN>ecent
reports that<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/29/google-gmail-blocked-china-great-firewall"
target=_blank>China has imposed further restrictions on Gmail,</A>Google’s
flagship email service, should not really come as much of a surprise. While
Chinese users have been unable to access Gmail’s site for several years now,
they were still able to use much of its functionality, thanks to third-party
services such as Outlook or Apple Mail.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">This
loophole has now been closed (albeit temporarily – some of the new restrictions
seem to have been mysteriously lifted already), which means determined Chinese
users have had to turn to more advanced circumvention tools. Those unable or
unwilling to perform any such acrobatics can simply switch to a service run by a
domestic Chinese company – which is precisely what the Chinese government wants
them to do.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">Such
short-term and long-term disruptions of Gmail connections are part of China’s
long-running efforts to protect its technological sovereignty by reducing its
citizens’ reliance on American-run communication services.
After<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none !important; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid; COLOR: rgb(0,86,137); BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: rgb(220,220,220)"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/22/north-korea-suffers-internet-blackout"
target=_blank>North Korea saw its internet access blacked
out</A><SPAN> </SPAN>temporarily in
the<SPAN> </SPAN><EM>Interview</EM><SPAN> </SPAN>brouhaha – with
little evidence that the country actually had anything to do with the massive
hacking of Sony – the concept of technological sovereignty is poised to emerge
as one of the most important and contentious doctrines of 2015.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">And
it’s not just the Chinese: the Russian government is pursuing a similar agenda.
A new law that came into effect last summer obliges all<SPAN> </SPAN><A
title=""
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none !important; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid; COLOR: rgb(0,86,137); BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: rgb(220,220,220)"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/russia-digital-soveriegnty-nsa-surveillance"
target=_blank>internet companies to store Russian citizens’ data on servers
inside the country</A>. This has already prompted<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-engineering-office-russia"
target=_blank>Google to close down its engineering
operations</A><SPAN> </SPAN>in Moscow. The Kremlin’s recent success in
getting<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none !important; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid; COLOR: rgb(0,86,137); BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: rgb(220,220,220)"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/-sp-verdict-alexei-navalny-kremlin-critic-galvanises-russia-opposition"
target=_blank>Facebook to block a page calling for protests in solidarity with
the charged activist Alexey Navalny</A><SPAN> </SPAN>indicates that the
government is rapidly re-establishing control over its citizens’ digital
activities.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">But
it’s hardly a global defeat for Google: the company is still expanding
elsewhere, building communications infrastructure that extends far beyond simple
email services. Thus, as South American countries began exploring plans to
counter NSA surveillance with a fibre optic network of their own that would
reduce their reliance on the US,<SPAN> </SPAN><A
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none !important; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid; COLOR: rgb(0,86,137); BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: rgb(220,220,220)"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/google"
target=_blank>Google</A><SPAN> </SPAN>opened its coffers to fund a $60m
undersea cable connecting Brazil to Florida.<BR>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">The
aim was to ensure that Google’s own services run better for users in Brazil, but
it is a potent reminder that extricating oneself from the grasp of America’s
tech empire requires a multidimensional strategy attuned to the fact that Google
today is not a mere search and email company – it also runs devices, operating
systems, and even connectivity itself.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">Given
that Russia and China are not known for their commitment to freedoms of
expression and assembly, it is tempting to view their quest for information
sovereignty as yet another stab at censorship and control. In fact, even when
the far more benign government of<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/brazil-dilma-rousseff-internet-us-control"
target=_blank>Brazil toyed with the idea of forcing American companies to store
user data locally<SPAN> </SPAN></A>– an idea it eventually abandoned – it
was widely accused of draconian overreach.<BR>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">However,<SPAN> </SPAN><A
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/russia" target=_blank>Russia</A>, China
and Brazil are simply responding to the extremely aggressive tactics adopted by
none other than the US. In typical fashion, though, America is completely
oblivious to its own actions, believing that there is such a thing as a neutral,
cosmopolitan internet and that any efforts to move away from it would result in
its “Balkanisation”. But for many countries, this is not Balkanisation at all,
merely de-Americanisation.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">US
companies have been playing an ambiguous role in this project. On the one hand,
they build efficient and highly functional infrastructure that locks in other
countries, creating long-term dependencies that are very messy and costly to
undo. They are the true vehicles for whatever is left of America’s global
modernisation agenda. On the other hand, the companies cannot be seen as mere
proxies for the American empire. Especially after the Edward Snowden revelations
clearly demonstrated the cosy alliances between America’s business and state
interests, these companies need to constantly assert their independence
–<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsuit-documents-fine-user-data-refusal"
target=_blank>occasionally by taking their own government to
court<SPAN> </SPAN></A>– even if, in reality, most of their interests
perfectly align with those of Washington.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">This
explains why Silicon Valley has been so vocal in demanding that the Obama
administration do something about internet privacy and surveillance: if internet
companies were seen as compromised parties here, their business would collapse.
Just look at the misfortunes of Verizon in 2014:<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28047877" target=_blank>uncertain of
the extent of data-sharing between Verizon and the NSA, the German government
ditched its contract with the US company</A><SPAN> </SPAN>in favour of
Deutsche Telekom. A German government spokesman said at the time: “The federal
government wants to win back more technological sovereignty, and therefore
prefers to work with German companies.”<BR>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">However,
to grasp the full extent of America’s hypocrisy on the issue of information
sovereignty, one needs to look no further than the<SPAN> </SPAN><A title=""
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/14/privacy-is-not-dead-microsoft-lawyer-brad-smith-us-government"
target=_blank>ongoing squabble between Microsoft and the US government</A>. It
concerns some email content – relevant to an investigation – stored on
Microsoft’s servers in Ireland. American prosecutors insist that they can obtain
such content from Microsoft simply by serving it a warrant – as if it makes no
difference that the email is stored in a foreign country.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">In
order to obtain it, Washington would normally need to go through a complex legal
process involving bilateral treaties between the governments involved. But now
it wants to sidestep that completely and treat the handling of such data as a
purely local issue with no international implications. The data resides in
cyberspace – and cyberspace knows no borders!
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">The
government’s reasoning here is that the storage issue is irrelevant; what is
relevant is where the content is accessed – and it can be accessed by
Microsoft’s employees in the US. Microsoft and other tech giants are now
fighting the US government in courts, with little success so far, while the
Irish government and a handful of European politicians are
backing<SPAN> </SPAN><A
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/microsoft"
target=_blank>Microsoft</A>.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">In
short, the US government insists that it should have access to data regardless
of where it is stored as long as it is handled by US companies. Just imagine the
outcry if the Chinese government were to demand access to any data that passes
through devices manufactured by Chinese companies – Xiaomi, say, or Lenovo –
regardless of whether their users are in London or New York or Tokyo. Note the
crucial difference: Russia and<SPAN> </SPAN><A
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href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/china"
target=_blank>China</A><SPAN> </SPAN>want to be able to access data
generated by their citizens on their own soil, whereas the US wants to access
data generated by anybody anywhere as long as American companies handle it.
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: medium/24px 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web',georgia,serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px">In
opposing the efforts of other countries to reclaim a modicum of technological
sovereignty, Washington is likely to run into a problem it has already
encountered while promoting its nebulous “internet freedom” agenda: its actions
speak louder than its words. Rhetorically, it is very hard to oppose
government-run digital surveillance and online spin in Russia, China or Iran,
when the US government probably does more of it than all of these countries
combined.<BR>
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motivates the desire of Russia and China to exert more control over their
digital properties – and only the naive would believe that they are not
motivated by concerns over domestic unrest – their actions are proportional to
the aggressive efforts of Washington to exploit the fact that so much of the
world’s communications infrastructure is run by Silicon Valley. One’s man
internet freedom is another man’s internet imperialism.</SPAN>
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