Dear Patrick Vande Walle, On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@vande-walle.eu>wrote:
Siva,
I respectfully disagree.
Many ccTLDs do much better than gTLDs on several aspects. WHOIS policy is one example. National Internet exchanges do a great job at saving international bandwidth by allowing local peering. This makes Internet access cheaper locally. IDNs are needed for those populations which do not wish to suffer the latin alphabet imperialism.
I agree. I said the same thing about the good side of ccTLDs, National Internet Exchanges and IDN TLDs in my response to Evan's message on this thread earlier. So I am very much in agreement with you on all these points, yet, I have concerns that ccTLDs, National Internet Exchanges and IDN TLDs have MIGHT make it easier for some or many national governments to barricade their national Internet space. I said it might happen, Evan responded by saying that it is already happening and provided an example.
I am not aware of christian countries - if such a thing exists, most are secularized societies - banning sites based on expressed religious faith. can you share some examples ?
No, such a thing does not exist. I was trying to explain that the Internet would become fragmented if politically, religiously or linguistically divided.
Censorship has been around for centuries in many societies. First, they burned books. Then, they jammed radio and TV signals. Now, they filter the Internet. Nothing new under the sun. How to solve that is another debate.
How?
However, I am afraid one cannot expect to "save the Internet" as such. Mentalities regarding censorship as a concept need to be changed.
We may not be able to preserve the Internet as a space totally free of any form of oversight, but the core values can be saved to a large extent, if we keep working. Thank you Patrick.
Yours,
Patrick
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:18:46 +0530, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com> wrote:
John,
Will Internet be Internet if Muslim countries ban sites with porn content, Hindu countries ban sites that have anything to do with beef or veal, Jewish countries ban sites with pictures of fish without scales and Christian nations ban sites from every other religion ?
Starts with domain names, next would be deep packet inspection aided filtering and IP address blocking. Stars with porn, will progress to idealogical and political content and then the technologies would even be adopted to be tools for 'economic sanctions'.
The network of networks wouldn't be Internet if it becomes a network of national networks. ccTLDs, National Internet Exchanges and IDN TLDs are the greatest threats to Internet.
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