On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:43, Paul Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Let's not forget that without the State there could be no internet.

No, lets forget that, because it makes no sense, unless the Internet
was developed in a communist country. It wasn't.

> So there needs to be an accomodation between the rights of the individual and 
> the rights of the State.

The "rights of the State" are the rights of the collective of
individuals, because the "State" is the collective of individuals.

>Part of the terms are dictated by political reality, but there are also moral 
>questions as to the right of the State to interfere with individual liberty. 
>In some ways, as I've said before, this isn't ontologically new territory, but 
>goes back to Rousseau's notion of the social contract, that the individual 
>surrenders the absolute liberty of  anarchy, for the security benefits 
>conferred by the state under the rule of law.
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> I'm less concerned that the State may ask a judge for a computer warrant, 
> than I am the Attorney General issuing TCNs to access carrier metadata 
> datastreams and using that for mass surveillance, or law enforcement then 
> forcing patches on service providers for my phone/television to enable the 
> mike and camera's for surveillance because I've triggered some kind of 
> Minority Report scenario, because, you know, they're doing their job and in 
> the AG's opinion it's reasonable.
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> In the case of the computer warrant, Law Enforcement have to allege a 
> specific breach of the criminal code, and establish evidentiary grounds this 
> crime is being committed to a judge's satisfaction. Much in the Assistance 
> and Access Bill leaves Law Enforcement as the decision makers as to what and 
> how is to be investigated. It is actually possible to simultaneously want to 
> see the rule of law be enforced, but without establishing the machinery of a 
> police state.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
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> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 13:43, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 11:29, Scott Weeks <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > From: Paul Wilkins <[email protected]>
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>> > I do think (and it's not a generally popular position) that
>> > the internet does need to, and is going to be, regulated.
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>> > No.  Absolutely does not need to be and cannot be anyway,
>> > unless you do a China.  Maybe this is what they're jealous
>> > of?  Total control over the media and all information.
>> > Like, you know, the Dark Ages...
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>> I agree.
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>> I wonder what Paul specifically thinks needs to be regulated. If it is
>> a general view, rather than a specific one, then Paul has
>> authoritarian beliefs (in other words, just the idea that somebody can
>> do something without first seeking and being given permission is an
>> anathema).
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>> The fundamental and most significant benefit of the Internet has been
>> that its architecture has permitted permissionless innovation, through
>> application protocol transparency in the network. To deploy a new
>> application or service over the Internet, you do not have to seek
>> permission of a telco for them to carry your traffic.
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>> IPv4 NATs have significantly limited the Internet's transparency,
>> which is why people have been creating an ad hoc and more transparent
>> virtual overlay network over the Internet using UDP - "UDP over IPv4 –
>> a stepping stone to IPv6?" -
>> https://blog.apnic.net/2017/03/24/udp-ipv4-stepping-stone-ipv6/ .
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>> Regards,
>> Mark.
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