Concerns about the potential Balkanization of the internet rose to public view when Russia’s parliament passed a bill requiring all technology companies to store the personal data of their Russian users in the country. If implemented the rule could move Russia closer to the state of the internet in China and Iran. Both already control online information through heavily censored domestic information and pervasive filtering of foreign information. The law is scheduled to be signed into law in September of 2016 by President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Putin was a former KGB officer and has described the internet as a conspiracy invented by the CIA forbes/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2015/01/12/did-we-kill-the-web/. ”The next few years are going to be about control,” said Danah Boyd, noted Internet thinker and a researcher at Microsoft. Survey respondents told Pew that trust in open communications technologies will continue to evaporate in the wake of revelations about government and corporate surveillance. Dig it. Al Gores 1988 bill (I know some of his staffers who wrote it) that unleashed a perfectly unregulated Internet upon the world was probably the greatest jiu jitsu move by enlightenment civilization since the US Constitution. It rocked every tyranny, forcing them to deal with a myriad awful, individualist headaches. But they are gettin g the knack of it, now. They think they can corner, control and USE it as a tool of oppression... ...which is why the new satellite web systems... ViaSat, then Google+Spacex... offer some promise to be the next side-step... if they design it right! And if there are many side paths.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:15:16 +0000
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