12-10-2012, 01:21 PM | #1 | ||
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World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)
The WCIT is almost over, and I got an email from avaaz.org regarding a petition to stop the internet from getting censored (again).
If you want to read more: Proposal for Global Regulation of Web - 9 Dec 2012 Quote:
ITU and Google face off at Dubai conference over future of the internet - 3 Dec 2012 Quote:
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12-10-2012, 04:14 PM | #2 |
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So some Arab countries want to censor the net and Russia and China are in agreement with them. Why am I not surprised by that? Kinda leads me to wonder what they're so afraid of that they want to have the net censored world wide?
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12-10-2012, 05:27 PM | #3 |
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The author of the Financial Times article appears to be surprised.
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12-10-2012, 08:24 PM | #4 |
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The good news is they overplayed their hand and got swatted hard enough they had to withdraw the plan (for now).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575...e-of-internet/ |
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I'm not sure that this can be concluded just yet. Following the link to the article about the leaked proposal:
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12-11-2012, 01:55 AM | #6 |
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It will become like banking, regulated in a lot of countries and then completely free in some that see the potential of providing unregulated information. Imagine what this could mean to Andorra's economy.
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The autocrats will continue to try to control/censor the internet and with bureaucrats and telecoms looking to expand their respective empires (through regulation and fees respectively) the issue isn't going away. But *for now* they ran into enough resistance that they've pulled back. They'll try again soon and they'll come back with more allies from the west next time, likely european telecoms and B&M retailers. |
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