<div dir="ltr"><div>Well written and articulate piece. It's quite disturbing that the bulk of internet savvies still don't dig or admit the US redneck colonization, quite obvious since ICANN creation. With them rhetorics is a waste. Only active opposition by all means makes sense, like China does (see article below). Ok, a diplomacy channel is valuable to keep contact points in times of crises.<br><br></div>Another insightful reading:<br>Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Eurasian Integration vs. the Empire of Chaos<br>December 16, 2014.<br><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175935/tomgram%3A_pepe_escobar%2C_eurasian_integration_vs._the_empire_of_chaos/">http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175935/tomgram%3A_pepe_escobar%2C_eurasian_integration_vs._the_empire_of_chaos/</a><br><div><br>Louis.<br>- - -<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">
<br><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<div>Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into the
context of free trade vs protectionism.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Ian Peter</div>
<div style="font-size:small;text-decoration:none;font-family:"Calibri";font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;display:inline">
<div style="font:10pt tahoma">
<div> </div>
<div style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(245,245,245)">
<div><b>From:</b> <a title="ip@listbox.com" href="mailto:ip@listbox.com" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">ip</a>
</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism
(via Evgeny Morosov)</div></div></div>
<div> </div></div>
<div style="font-size:small;text-decoration:none;font-family:"Calibri";font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;display:inline">
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Mark
Stahlman via Digital Life" <<a href="mailto:dl@listbox.com" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">dave@farber.net</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">
<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>
<div style="white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font:medium/24px "Guardian Text Egyptian Web",georgia,serif;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(239,239,236);text-indent:0px">
<div style="padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;margin:0px auto;padding-right:1px">
<div style="margin-bottom:auto;margin-top:auto;margin-right:20px">
<h1><font size="4">Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the
US?</font></h1><span style="font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web","Guardian Text Egyptian Web",georgia,serif;font-weight:200;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding-top:0px;display:block"><span><a style="text-decoration:none;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;color:rgb(230,113,27)" href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov" rel="author" target="_blank">Evgeny Morozov</a></span></span></div></div></div>
<div>
<div style="padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;margin:0px auto;padding-right:1px">
<div style="margin-bottom:auto;margin-top:auto;margin-right:20px">
<div 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’ onlinUS 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></span></div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">[snip]<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>