[governance] * Chinese plan to meter net traffic *

[Fouad Bajwa]

I believe that this is an important Internet Authoritarian news piece
that all have to be aware of: * Chinese plan to meter net traffic *
FYI:
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From: Dessalegn Mequanint <dessalegn_m at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Subject: [igcbp-talk] Fw: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] * Chinese plan
to meter net traffic *
To: igcbp-talk

Dessalegn Mequanint, Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Informatics,
Department of Computer Science, e-mail: dessalegn at cs.aau.edu.et,
dessalegn_m at yahoo.com, Tel: +251 11 122 29 22 (Off.)

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From: George Lessard <media at web.net>
Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 4:04:15 PM
Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] * Chinese plan to meter net traffic *

* Chinese plan to meter net traffic *
China is seeking international agreement to let it meter net traffic that
passes through its borders.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm

But an EU cyber security expert has warned the plan could threaten the
stability of the entire internet.

Andrea Servida, of the European Commission, told a House of Lords
committee that China could have a "hidden agenda" in wanting to monitor
data flows.

And, in later comments to BBC News, he suggested technical changes needed
to charge everyone for internet traffic flowing through China could
undermine the web's founding principle of openness as well as raising
security and stability concerns for all net users.


-- 
Regards.
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