[governance] The Big Brother is everywhere now - Assange

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Hei, McTim, frankly, you can do far better than this: CIR go quite
beyond ICANN -- and this was a reason MAG decided to insert CIR instead
of just governance of names and numbers as another key topic in IGF from
Rio on.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 12/02/2011 01:42 AM, McTim wrote:
> On 12/2/11, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [The only difference now being we cannot really pretend these
>> "omissions" on liberty are not there... from Apple's oops we did not
>> know it was turned on, Google's drive-by piracy of WiFi data compiling
>> Streetview or the US War on Terror grab of ALL SWIFT international
>> financial transaction data... the net must be free, and there is so much
>> of fiddling of deckchairs on the titanic... and meanwhile the arguments
>> faced while these kinds of things were happening was "if it aint broke,
>> don't fix it" (i.e. governance of critical internet resources and more!)
> 
> You are conflating many things here.  I would suggest that the
> governance of CIRs has very little to do with net freedom.  How can
> ICANN, for example, regulate the behavior of Apple, Google or SWIFT?
> 
> 
>> and perhaps this will simply take a new guise....or perhaps not... if as
>> Lessig said, technological choices (+stds) are effectively regulation
>> then the scope of struggle is much larger... time to revisit my
>> Parminder, Geist and Mueller on this especially as the reintier class
>> seeks to reinvigorate controls in the name of preventing piracy while
>> the weapons of mass distraction are deployed to ensure Big Brother makes
>> some people more equal than others... of course this may just be
>> conspiracy theory junk, right?]
> 
> If you want to enshrine Big Brother, there is no better way than to
> give governments free hand to regulate the Internet.
> 
> 
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