[LINK] Fascistic Internet and Consumer-Device Designs
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Mon Nov 14 10:49:08 AEDT 2011
Lauren Weinstein's excelled himself with this one:
The Coming Fascist Internet
November 13, 2011
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000911.html
The first part is a highly-readable reminiscence from early ARPANET
days, and the second part is an expression of serious concern about
the state of play, e.g.
"In their efforts to control people and protect profits, governments
and associated industries (often in league with powerful Internet
Service Providers -- ISPs -- who in some respects are admittedly
caught in the middle), seem willing to impose draconian, ultimately
fascist censorship, identification, and other controls on the
Internet and its users, even extending into the basic hardware in our
homes and offices".
Consumer devices are vulnerable to the same power-play:
Will Consumers Come to be Banned From
Owning General-Purpose Computing Devices?
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:06:52 +1100
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2011-September/094938.html
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Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre Uni of NSW
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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