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- Part Three: Who Controls the Internet?
- By Colin Wood. Government Technology, May 17, 2013. "In part one and part two of our three-part series, we discussed attempts to regulate the Internet both nationally and globally. Though the future of internet governance is unknown, as regulatory agencies and governments clamp down, cooperation between Internet advocacy groups and regulatory agencies could help avoid increased Internet censorship or possible balkanization. If the Internet were a movie, it would fall into the genre of films following the general plot of King Kong. What begins as a gentle giant, peaceful and safe in its natural habitat, eventually gets scared, terrorizes the public with a destructive rampage, and ends up shot with a tranquilizer dart and made to perform in the circus, or similar. Sometimes the movie ends at this point, the protagonist misunderstood and with no real chance of redemption, and the ending is sad (The Elephant Man). In other stories, the monster is rescued or even redeemed in the eyes of the once-angry public (The Iron Giant). The Internet is just one cyber-9/11 away from being shackled, upsetting the Web’s so-far rosy childhood that the public has enjoyed so much. Even barring an emergency, with federal lawmakers and restrictive foreign nations pushing for increased regulation, it’s possible that the Internet could become less free, less open and less useful than it is today, making for quite the sad ending..."
Added: 21 May 2013;
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- Part Two: Who Controls the Internet?
- By Colin Wood. Government Technology, May 16, 2013. "In part one of our three-part series, we discussed America's attempts to regulate the Internet -- and many Americans are concerned about the Internet moving away from its current governance model, for good reason. Governance varies around the globe, and one need only look at a highly-restrictive country like China to realize that the Internet doesn’t necessarily have to be free or open in any given country. Running the Internet, despite being a huge international effort, bears similarity to a grassroots co-op. Those who are most invested in the success of the Internet, such as members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the Internet Society (ISOC), are typically the ones making the decisions that affect the overall scheme of how the Internet works. In other words, the gardeners run the garden. But for better or worse, new authorities will likely encroach on how the Internet is run..."
Added: 21 May 2013;
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- Who Controls the Internet?
- By Colin Wood. Government Technology, May 15, 2013. "The idea that anyone is controlling the Internet runs contrary to common knowledge. The Web has a tradition of hosting free content with relatively little government or regulatory interference, and is today backed by a fervent army of supporters ready to defend a free and open platform. And in celebration of 20 years of a free World Wide Web, research laboratory CERN recently restored the world’s first website: http://info.cern.ch/. April 30, 1993 was the day the Web’s source code became publicly available on a royalty-free basis, setting a precedent of free, open and transparent public participation and usage online. Many individuals and organizations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), maintain it is the free and open nature of the Web that has permitted the historically unrivaled technological growth seen today, while providing an outlet for the nation’s most cherished right of free speech. But the Internet is not completely free, nor is access uniform across the globe -- nor are things likely to stay exactly as they are today..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- ITU: Internet policy still on agenda
- ITU is the best place to discuss issues on which there is no clear consensus, said its Secretary General, By John Ribeiro. Computerworld, January 31, 2013. "Public policy formulation in all domains, including the Internet, is the sovereign right of member states, said ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure on Wednesday, suggesting that a debate over control of the Internet is far from over at the telecommunications body. Toure was quoting from the Internet governance section of the Tunis Agenda in 2005 of the World Summit on the Information Society..."
Added: 4 February 2013;
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- Internet remains unregulated after UN treaty blocked
- Failure to sign agreement at ITU conference stops governments having greater powers to control phone calls and data, by Charles Arthur. guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 December 2012. "A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations. They said they are "not able to sign the agreement in its current form" at the end of a International Telecoms Union (ITU) conference in Dubai..."
Added: 17 December 2012;
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- Australia walks away from WCIT treaty
- By Josh Taylor. ZDNet, December 14, 2012. "Summary: Australia will follow in the footsteps of the US and the UK by rejecting the last minute revised international telecommunications treaty. Australia has joined the US and the UK in refusing to sign the proposed international telecommunications treaty, after last minute, wide-ranging revisions to the treaty at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) would have opened the door for greater government regulation of the internet..."
Added: 17 December 2012;
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- Confusion on internet future at UN
- by Rob Lever. Australian Financial Review, Published: 16 December 2012 15:25:00; Updated: 17 December 2012. "The freewheeling, unregulated internet seemed to survive a push for new rules at a United Nations treaty meeting, but the collapse of talks leaves unanswered questions about the web's future. Eighty-nine countries endorsed the global treaty on telecom regulations at the UN's International Telecommunication Union gathering in Dubai on Friday, but the United States and dozens of others refused to sign, saying it opened the door to regulating the internet..."
Added: 17 December 2012;
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- WCIT-12 leak shows Russia, China, others seek to define 'government-controlled Internet'
- By Violet Blue for Pulp Tech. ZDNet, December 8, 2012. "Summary: Leaked proposals from the U.N. WCIT-12 summit show Russia, China, and similar regimes are making a bid to define the Internet as a system of government-controlled networks. New proposals submitted to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) aim to redefine the Internet as a system of government-controlled, state-supervised networks, according to a leaked document. The WCIT-12 summit in Dubai is currently where the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is being held, where member state countries are going head-to-head about proposed revisions to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), a legally binding international treaty signed by 178 countries..."
Added: 10 December 2012;
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- U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition of U.N. Internet governance
- By Violet Blue for Pulp Tech. ZDNet, December 6, 2012. "Summary: The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a resolution to oppose U.N. intent to govern and regulate the Internet at its WCIT-12 conference in Dubai, currently underway.
Added: 6 December 2012;
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- Australian govt fights against internet governance changes
- By Josh Taylor. ZDNet, December 3, 2012. "Summary: The Australian government has flagged that it will oppose proposed changes to the International Telecommunications Regulations that would expand government power over the internet. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is in Dubai this week for the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU's) World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), and said that the Australian government will oppose changes that would give governments greater control over the internet..."
Added: 5 December 2012;
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- Open Internet governance urged at Australian Internet Governance Forum
- Closed-door talks 'are absolutely eating away like a corrosive acid from inside,' says Internet NZ CEO, by Adam Bender. Computerworld, 11 October, 2012. "Closed-door talks and excessive self-interest in governance hurts the Internet, said a Google official and other Internet stakeholders on a panel this morning at the Australian Internet Governance Forum. The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership talks received particular criticism. Google might not exist if not for the open nature of the Internet, said the company’s head of public policy for Australia and New Zealand, Iarla Flynn..."
Added: 15 October 2012;
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- Internet freedom under threat
- by Asher Moses. The Age, October 10, 2012. "Secret proposals threaten the end to a free, open internet. It is the "most important meeting you've never heard of" — a behind-closed-doors battle for control of the internet that one of the web's founders fears may "put government handcuffs on the net". The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a United Nations organisation representing 193 countries, is reviewing international agreements governing telecommunications with a view to expanding its regulatory authority over the internet..."
Added: 10 October 2012;
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- Govt urged to resist changes to internet governance
- InternetNZ favours keeping multi-stakeholder approach, By Stephen Bell - Wellington. Computerworld, Friday, 5 October, 2012. "InternetNZ will be approaching the government to secure its vote against a shift in internet governance that the International Telecommunications Union is set to promote at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this December..."
Added: 8 October 2012;
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- The Brewing Internet Governance Storm
- By Bevil Wooding. CircleID, August 30, 2012. "And Why You Should Care. The Internet has been growing at 115% per year, more than doubling annually, for thirty years. Today, over two billion people are connected to the Internet. The openness of the Internet has been the main catalyst for many social and economic advances. It has enabled a level of human communication and interconnection unprecedented in human history, as demonstrated by the staggering global popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It has also spurred new levels of innovation, fueling significant economic activity. The McKinsey Global Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, estimates that the Internet has generated as much as 10% of GDP growth in developed countries over the past fifteen years. The impressive growth of the Internet has not been without challenges, however. The structures necessary to oversee such a dynamic creature as the Internet have to adapt continually to a shifting set of global priorities and pressures. Further, Internet-enabled economic benefits, and the power and influence that goes with them, are often not equitably channeled to developing nations..."
Added: 3 September 2012;
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- US resists control of internet passing to UN agency
- By Leo Kelion. BBC News, 3 August 2012. "The US has confirmed it would resist efforts to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net's technical specifications and domain name system. They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce..."
Added: 6 August 2012;
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