[governance] Fwd: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet Freedom - How the freedom-to-connect movement aids Western hegemony

[Deirdre Williams]

For your information.
Deirdre

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From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
Date: 26 March 2015 at 08:25
Subject: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet
Freedom - How the freedom-to-connect movement aids Western hegemony
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Might be of interest to some…

*http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw <http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw>*

Discussions surrounding the role of the internet in society are dominated
by terms such as *internet freedom*, *surveillance*, *cybersecurity,* and,
most prolifically, *cyber war*. But behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an
ongoing state-centered battle for control of information resources. Shawn
Powers and Michael Jablonski conceptualize this *real* cyber war as the
utilization of digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert
attacks against another state’s electronic systems, but also, and more
importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a state’s
economic and military agendas.

Moving beyond debates on the democratic value of new and emerging
information technologies, *The Real Cyber War* focuses on political,
economic, and geopolitical factors driving internet freedom policies, in
particular the U.S. State Department's emerging doctrine in support of a
universal freedom to connect. They argue that efforts to create a universal
internet built upon Western legal, political, and social preferences is
driven by economic and geopolitical motivations rather than the
humanitarian and democratic ideals that typically accompany related policy
discourse. In fact, the freedom-to-connect movement is intertwined with
broader efforts to structure global society in ways that favor American and
Western cultures, economies, and governments….

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