[governance] RE: Has U.S. started an Internet war? By Bruce Schneier + tinyURL

Carlos A. Afonso ca at cafonso.ca
Wed Jun 19 12:50:31 EDT 2013


Ooops, got a PDF version in English, attached.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 06/19/2013 01:37 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> Besides endorsing Ian's worries, I should say that there is already
> activity to propose alternatives to circumvent walled gardens or
> cybercensors (far more structural ones than just anonymizers etc). The
> Internet will quite probably not be the same as we idealized in the
> recent past, and networking alternatives will emerge. Inevitably, some
> form of international governance will also emerge (to the desperation of
> the status-quoers). Hopefully truly multistaskeholder, but as Ian notes
> we can no longer trust some big defenders of "multistakeholderism"...
>
> I am just reading a paper issued now by Brazilian scholars on this --
> challenging, extremely interesting. In Portuguese...
>
> []s fraternos
>
> --c.a.
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> On 06/18/2013 06:29 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
>> In time these events may prove far more serious for the Internet's
>> future than may be apparent at this stage.
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>> The most powerful advocate of Internet freedom and multistakeholderism
>> is being seen now as a party acting in its self interest rather than for
>> global interests, and multistakeholder is beginning to seem like a
>> philosophy of convenience to protect US dominant interests.
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>> I expect to see more and more walled gardens. I expect the IANA
>> oversight question to be raised more loudly, and US intransigence on
>> this question to lead to serious repercussions for ICANN as well.
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>> This might be the end game for the global Internet as we know it. I
>> don't see how we move on from here to achieve sensible outcomes. I'm
>> sure global connectivity will remain, but I dont see the sort of
>> facility we used to enjoy and we probably all hoped for remaining intact.
>>
>> Ian Peter
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: michael gurstein
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:20 AM
>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> Subject: [governance] RE: Has U.S. started an Internet war? By Bruce
>> Schneier + tinyURL
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>> No with tiny URL
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>> http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.htm
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>> http://tinyurl.com/n35rd8h
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