[governance] Egypt and Internet Governance

[Norbert Bollow]

Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> In parallel the only acceptable reason for shutting down the
> Internet would be a 'physical' threat to the network or to people's
> computer systems - e.g. if there were a virus so pernicious that it
> fried every motherboard after having propagated.  Not even sure that
> is possible, but since SW controls HW it might be.

Even that is far from even coming close to being an acceptable
justification, IMO.

Computer mainboards are replacable, it's just a matter of money
that can be covered by insurance. So for example, countries can
adopt a law that says that if a computer mainboard gets fried
by a virus, the shop that sold the computer must repair it free
of charge. The shops would probably buy insurance to cover their
risk.

Greetings,
Norbert
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