[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[parminder]

McTim wrote:
> This is why its madness to comtenplate giving govts MORE control over
> things Internety. Rgds, McTim
>   

McTim, Democracy is about democratic institutions, of which democratic 
governments are a basic component. You simply do not seem to believe in 
democratic institutions as against anarchy masquerading as democracy. 
And this argument extends to global democracy in terms of governing the 
essentially global phenomenon of the Internet.

The kind of arrangements that you seem to support, by design or default, 
just means that the 'Internety things' are controlled and exploited to 
their advantage by a few global corporates and a few governments of the 
richer countries. They just hide these controls well enough to mislead 
the more gullible. parminder
> On 1/28/11, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>   
>> Today may turn out to be a historic day for Egypt...
>>
>>
>> Pl read below.
>>
>> AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark"
>>
>> http://bit.ly/gCJFHt  (AP / MSN)
>>
>>    "The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong
>>     control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of
>>     them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called
>>     'almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.'"
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PK

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