Capture that Internet!
from Spiegel: "E-Resistance Blooms in Pakistan":
Is it no wonder, with the administration looking to Burma / Myanmar and Pakistan, as proofs-of-concept paradigms, just how important it is to the administration to capture the Internet and to render it into the likeness of the already controlled mainstream media?
Is it also no wonder then that the "US control over Internet dominates discussion at UN conference in Brazil", (from the Sydney Morning Herald):
Do you really suppose that there's any chance that the government is going to miss a chance to bring about wholesale privatization of the Internet by end-running 'Net Neutrality, by starting with voting for Telcom Immunity?
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With the media muzzled, citizens are blogging and using sites like Facebook to spread news and organize "flash" protests against Musharraf's emergency rule."
Is it no wonder, with the administration looking to Burma / Myanmar and Pakistan, as proofs-of-concept paradigms, just how important it is to the administration to capture the Internet and to render it into the likeness of the already controlled mainstream media?
Is it also no wonder then that the "US control over Internet dominates discussion at UN conference in Brazil", (from the Sydney Morning Herald):
'The Internet is transnational. It can't be under the authority of one country or even some countries', said Brazil's Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, who is also a major pop star here, setting the conference's tone at the opening ceremony. 'The Internet should be the territory of everyone.'"
Do you really suppose that there's any chance that the government is going to miss a chance to bring about wholesale privatization of the Internet by end-running 'Net Neutrality, by starting with voting for Telcom Immunity?
Labels: ATT, Brazil, Burma, immunity, internet, Pakistan, telecommunications companies
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posted by mettle at
11/13/2007
