Latest copy of the ITU's DPI recommendations:
http://brendan.so/2012/12/06/leak-draft-new-recommendation-itu-t-y-2770-formerly-y-dpireq/ - Asher Wolf On 6/12/12 9:41 AM, Petter Ericson wrote: > 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 > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
