[governance] China's next-generation internet is a world-beater - tech - 10 March 2013 - New Scientist

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

See below

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Regards,

Nick

Sent from my one of my handheld thingies, please excuse linguistic mangling.

On 12 Mar 2013, at 17:30, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

What does occur to me from both of these however, is that they (together)
clearly indicate the need for some sort of global agreements concerning the
overall governance (development/deployment) of the Internet (including
issues of cybersecurity and content flow) if it is to continue to operate
in an effective and inclusive manner in the interests of us all…


There are plenty of rules already with respect to the behaviour we are
seeing, and they are rules to which China is a party. For example, China
has obligations at the WTO not to interfere with advertising, yet, they
block ad-bearing services from outside in order to protect equivalent
services (including ad-bearing services mind you) that are homegrown. There
are also human rights agreements, again to which China is a party I
understand, which obligate it not to do many of the things it is doing to
its citizens.

There are also talks going on now in trade that would protect the flow of
information, and quite likely the Internet as a platform, too.

This idea that agreements need to be made in order to prevent certain
states from doing one thing or another is all very nice - but just because
a country signs an agreement doesn't mean it will implement its provisions.
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