[governance] Conflicts in Internet Governance

[Avri Doria]

All of the Internet, like the land world before it, was once commons. Then, as before, the rich, the powerful and greedy, with the assistance of the governments they bought, and continue to buy, began to misappropriate those commons and called it property.  Each day more of that commons its stolen. Each day more of the linguistic commons is stolen and called intellectual property. The Internet commons is almost gone. This its what government do best - with some very few exceptions - assist in the theft of the commons.

I have no problem with those who create art or new Internet spaces enjoying the fruits of their creativity and inventiveness. A neologism may be owned. A new Internet space may be owned. But the language itself or the Internet should not be.

Diego Rafael Canabarro <diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:

>At the International Studies Association Annual Convention last week in
>San
>Francisco, an official from the US Department of State said: "there's
>no
>commons on cyberspace". That perception is closely related to the
>conflict
>presented by Mr. Perry bellow in this thread. I'm still struggling with
>that assertion.
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
>> Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>>
>> > One of the most significant I'm aware of (and I hope this is within
>> > the remit of your question):
>>
>> It definitely is, and it's a conflict that I have not been
>sufficiently
>> conscious of, so thank you very much for pointing this out!
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>> > The private sector has built extensive
>> > networks [fixed and mobile] using $billons of investment on which
>> > their shareholders [many of whom are the consumers' pension funds]
>> > expect a return, versus many customers who feel entitled to have
>> > unlimited usage for a relatively trivial monthly payment (which
>they
>> > sometimes dress up as "Network Neutrality").
>> >
>> > I post this not to support either of the above points of view, but
>> > merely to inform readers of the conflict it unquestionably
>represents.
>>
>>
>>
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