On 11/03/2011, at 5:07 PM, Dean Willis wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> >> >> This will have the effect of isolating some companies and countries from the >> Internet. Is that a good outcome? > > > You mean some third-world (or soon to be) junta-dictator might officially and > deliberately cut their economy off from the world's communication networks, > thereby insuring economic failure, rather than suffer the risk that their > citizens might be exposed to external influence or use the Internet to > complain about or conspire against their "lawful leaders", rather as North > Korea has done? > > I'm OK with that. It helps bring about their failure due to economic collapse > rather than requiring outside force to stop their depredations, although it > might take a few generations to work.
... compared to the much faster social changes that have been witnessed in places where there's been even partial exposure to external information, that seems like a poor outcome. Collapse is messy and very dangerous for the people you want to help. > I'm also okay with air-dropping satellite terminals and television receivers > to their victims, and with beaming high-power wireless signals across their > borders in order to speed things up. And how likely are those things to actually happen and have a measurable effect? Seriously. I have severe doubts about whether this is an appropriate and capable forum for making such weighty judgements. YMMV. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
