[governance] SOPA or no SOPA

[William Drake]

P,

I admire the breadth of your interests.  You read the Hollywood Reporter?  :-)

BD



On Dec 10, 2011, at 3:44 PM, parminder wrote:

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> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/antipiracy-laws-congress-sopa-269625?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+thr/news+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29
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> Hi All
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> See the story at the above link about how whether SOPA is enacted or not (or enacted in a slightly diluted form) the US establishment is already using the kind of devices SOPA puts at its services for very strict SOPA-like IP enforcement over the Internet. And such control and enforcement also gets done in both extra-territorial and extra legal manners (for instance, in the case of wikileaks).
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> With the major Internet nodes of power all in the US - ICANN (DNS and IANA), major registries, online payment services, online advertisement companies, major international ISPs, biggest web hosting services, monopoly search engines and social media companies, etc,   - it was always obvious that such hugely dis-proportionate US control of the Internet system will be a problem for the global nature of the Internet. However, most people in the IG civil society still like to turn a blind eye to this problem - hoping it will somehow go away. No, it certainly wont go away. It will keep becoming more and more vicious till there is just no other way than to take the right steps toward developing global principles and institution for global Internet governance that are genuinely democratic and participatory. And by then, considerable damage will already have been done to the techno-social architecture of the global Internet. 
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> BTW, the use of these multiple nodes and devices of power, as mentioned earlier -- ICANN (DNS and IANA), major registries, online payment services, online advertisement companies, major international ISPs, biggest web hosting services, monopoly search engines and social media companies, etc,   -   in various combinations, to do legal, extra legal and extra territorial enforcement of rule and power is a fine example of private networked governance. This model typically awards power with more power, and that is the problem with it; something which will fit very well with Castellsians theories of power distribution in and through an automated and politically unchecked network . 
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> We need countervailing systems of political and democratic power for the global Internet.
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> Parminder 
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