[governance] FW: [IP] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secrAnet files reveal | World news | guardian.co.uk

[McTim]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:22 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> So where exactly does this leave the current/recent "Hands off the
> Internet" campaign as spearheaded by the USG, Google, and various of their
> supporters and cooperants in Civil Society and elsewhere?
>


Doesn't this news (yet to be clarified BTW, see link below) mean that we
should push for more hands-offyness, rather than less?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/internet-companies-deny-prism_n_3399841.html?ref=topbar



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> I'm personally ready to join any campaign which recognizes these realities
> as below and militates for "everyone's" hands off the Internet and/or the
> putting in place of effective global measures to ensure appropriate
> oversight, appeal, transparency, accountability etc.etc.
>


am for the former, not the latter.



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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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