According to Reuters Venezuela is the latest country that plans regulate the Internet.
A bill presented to parliament on Thursday will place limits on content in “electronic media” according to the time of day, with adult content reserved for programing after midnight.
The Reuters story does not say what time of day the Adult blocking would be turned back on and its quite unclear how the Government would block content based on time.
The Venezuelan bill also proposes allowing the government to restrict access to websites if they are found to be distributing messages or information that incite violence against the president.
Considering that much of distribution comes from social networking sites like Twitter its may wind up with the country blocking sites like Twitter.
Interestingly at the ICANN meeting this week groups opposed to .XXX made statement at the public meeting to the effect that countries would block .XXX entirely and thereby “break the internet”.
Supporters of .XXX said at the same meeting that countries like China and Iran already block certain sites and material and that hasn’t “broken the Internet”.
It will be interesting to see if this bill passes what the effect on the overall Internet will be and if other countries will adopt such measures
“President Hugo Chavez’s Socialist Party, said the law was aimed at protecting citizens.”
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Sounds similar to ICANN and the I* Eco.System
Socialism (i.e. The.Community®) is fascinating to study.
People who prefer Vote-Based Systems like to have ONE.Domain.ONE.Vote
Wonder if the 8,000,000 .ORG owners would Vote to Endorse/Back/Facilitate the .XXX infrastructure ?
What happened to the Internet Governance concept of “ONE.Domain.ONE.Vote” ?
I’ll be boarding an airplane in a few days. During this process, they will search my bags, scan my body with a machine that sees through my clothes and invariably, pull be aside for “additional screening” due to my extra-large build and swarthy complexion.
I remember when I would bring pocket knives on airplanes and people still smoked on them. My grandfather, who regularly carried large sums of cash, used to board them carrying a sidearm.
I do wonder if we reach “Internet Circa 2050” and look back on these days with similar awe, as far as how ‘free we used to be’ in cyberspace. I think everyone kind of accepts that things are eventually going to change and that some meaningful regulation will come, but sometimes I fear it will get ugly, to the point that the future internet no longer resembles what it is today.
Off to make another donation to EFF….
Go ahead ICANN bumblers …
The World is declaring your internet leadership ability
to govern the Worldwide Internet VOID
If you approve .XXX
the Backlash will roll some heads …
I hope it is Yours!
ICANN is a WHORE
Suggesting that Venezuela can ban Twitter is totally ridiculous, the president of Venezuela the honourable Hugo Chavez uses Twitter himself:
http://twitter.com/chavezcandanga
BTW: That is over a million Twitter followers.
Better get to use to it- just came back from a trip to Asia and to use the PCs in the internet cafes you have to show your passport.
They are watching you!!!
“to use the PCs in the internet cafes”
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The good news is most “internet cafes” are not really THE “internet” they are proxied World Wide Web – People can do less damage from controlled locations
The bad news is it will likely become very hard to find The.Real.Internet® outside of the .USA Walled Garden. There are many technical and economic reasons why that will be the case.
the most successful product on the web is the censorship
“the most successful product on the web is the censorship”
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And surveillance – That’s why WHOIS is really what people care about not DNS
.WIKI “Brave New World was inspired by the H. G. Wells’s utopian novel Men Like Gods. Wells’ optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novel, which became Brave New World. Contrary to the most popular optimist utopian novels of the time, Huxley sought to provide a frightening vision of the future. Huxley referred to Brave New World as a “negative utopia” (see dystopia)” .WIKI
Viva
I’m aware of Mr. Chavez’s Twittering however when his country is getting ready to pass a law against “websites if they are found to be distributing messages or information that incite violence against the president” and many of such messages would be carried on Twitter, well I don’t know how those 2 will reconcile
During times of economic contraction, the world’s collective mindset has always swung back to a more reflective, conservative, & modest way of life. That’s where we’re headed for the next ten-to-fifteen years at least, even here in the good ‘ole US-of-A.
– EWS
Fascinating censorship…
://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/business/12advantage.html?src=busln
“A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives”
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“In theory, this group exists to safeguard the integrity of the multitrillion-dollar market.”
://online.wsj.com
Life After Madoff’s ‘Big Lie’
“Two years ago, Bernard Madoff told his two sons that his multi-billion-dollar investment business was “one big lie,” according to authorities.”
“Madoff’s Son Is Found Dead in Apparent Suicide”
I fear that the WikiLeaks case will be a good excuse for all governments of the world to increase their control on the (formerly free) net
Auditions now open for ICANN Music Night – March 2011
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
Scary stuff. Canadian police just imposed martial law in Ontario for the g20 bum-f%ck. Arresting and attacking innocent people with no cause. There have also been suggestions that the police where actually “protesters” inciting the riots. Watch the videos, nasty business.