Mike G wrote:
La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eg8-forum-a-smokescreen-for-governmental-
control-of-the-net
"eG8 Forum": A Smokescreen For Governmental Control Of The Net
Lauren Weinstein (of Privacy Digest inter alia) seems to be on it:
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000856.html
Why the Internet is the Most Important Thing in the World
[snip]
While it's easy to point fingers at various corporate Internet
entities for lapses of one sort or another, I have come to
believe that the ultimate enemy of freedom on the Internet is
governments themselves -- often (but not always) well meaning,
but always carrying the potential for enormous damage.
For the Internet is now arguably the most important thing in
the world.
[snip]
Government control and surveillance over Internet content --
especially government-mandated censorship, blocking, and
eavesdropping regimes -- are in some ways more dangerous than
nuclear weapons. They all have the ability to cause
destruction on an enormous scale. One hopes that the utter
decimation of life that can result from nuclear weapons will
continue to further restrain their use.
But few if any such restraints seem apparent on governments'
desires to control and surveil the Internet, even though this
could be as ultimately damaging to the human spirit, as fusion
bombs are to human life.
[snip]
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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