On 05 December, 2012 - Pavol Luptak wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:27:27PM +0100, Christian Fuchs wrote: > > If this approval by the ITU is true - then it is no surprise at all, > > but what one would expect. What else has the ITU in the past ever > > been than an instrument that supports capitalist interests and > > commodification of the ICT and telecommunications industries? > > > > DPI can advance large-scale monitoring of citizens by the > > state-capital complex that is connected by a right-wing state > > ideology of fighting crime and terror by massive use of surveillance > > technologies and a neoliberal ideology of capitalist organisations > > that want to make a profit out of surveillance and want to hinder > > the undermining of intellectual property rights. > > DPI censorship is not a 'competitive' advantage, so it's quite likely that > in a pure market society ('anarchocapitalism') without strong socialistic > governments and their stupid Internet regulations, most Internet providers > WILL > NOT censor their connections, otherwise they will loose their customers. Most > customers are not willing to pay for censored Internet if they can choose > unfiltered free Internet. And the only one who can take them this right is > a monopoly for laws/regulations - the centralized government.
Without being drawn wildly off-topic, let me just note that you are assuming that the customers of a generic ISP in a "pure market society" are the people getting the "internet" access. /P -- Petter Ericson (pett...@acc.umu.se) Telecomix Sleeper Jellyfish -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech