[governance] Meanwhile, back at Our Space

[Norbert Bollow]

Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> At the same time, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the telco giants
> who control so much of Internet access now are much more attracted to the
> mobile business model - pay per minute, and pay per content source. Now how
> do we apply that to the Internet, they ponder. And how soon will they
> succeed given their economic power and ability to influence regulators?
> 
> Or aren't these the sort of issues that internet governance should consider?

I think that creating effective protections against this kind of
attack on the freedom of the internet should be considered _the_
most important internet governance topic _if_ there is a real
danger that such attacks could otherwise succeed.

How serious is this threat?

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG    http://SIUG.ch
Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
truly /open/ international standards organization  http://OpenISO.org
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