[governance] China supports UK Internet Policy

[Roland Perry]

In message <4E4F5A39.3040704 at gmail.com>, at 09:54:49 on Sat, 20 Aug 
2011, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> writes
>What wonderful convergence! Of course the mainstream media reporting on 
>countries in the South doing this has/had an edge of "look at how 
>primitive these people are" while the case of the UK considering such 
>actions are more "reasonable", "measured" and "considered".

Things have moved on a bit since the initial remarks, and it's now 
thought that being able to monitor where the looters (much more was 
stolen than destroyed) are being encouraged to go is more useful.

Some hardliners are still suggesting that shutting it off "for an hour" 
would be no different than temporarily closing a road; but that ignores 
the practical aspects rather more than the legal ones.

This episode is a perfect example of how the Internet accelerates things 
happening in real life. The bad along with the good. The Internet 
Governance question is: does the involvement of the Internet cast a veil 
of immunity over all acts of badness, or only some of them?
-- 
Roland Perry
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