[governance] NET NEUTRALITY AND MORE

[Riaz Tayob]

So Avri, what is your stance on DOC origination and ICANN control over CIR?


On 28 May 2013 10:32, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:

>
> On 28 May 2013, at 09:17, Kossi Amessinou wrote:
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> > Is-it normal to see Internet be control? at what level?
>
>
> I beleive that governments, if we let them, will control the Internet to
> the point at which none of us have anything more than a walled garden with
> selections that are approved for the populations.  These walled gardens
> will be rich with content and lovely to inhabit, but not necessarily the
> content we want or need.  Most of the the population will be satisfied and
> as the CS rep fro Belarus said yesterday at one of the Human Rights council
> side meetings, "we have Internet."  But as an Azerbaijani participant said
> at a meeting last year, is a walled garden the Internet.
>
> Some freedom of expression and association will be allowed so that there
> is something to surveil, so there will always be some limited ability to
> comment - they can't catch the threats if they don't allow the citizens a
> bit of leash.
>
> Through the slow march of making citizenry ever more safe and harmonious,
> all done for the very best of reasons, governments will constrict the
> Internet's availability evermore.
>
> But this can only occur if we allow them.  Hence the permanent struggle to
> keep the Internet open.
>
> avri
>
>
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