Cyber Experts Call for Pentagon Intervention
DID YOU VOTE FOR THIS?! I don't think even Obama voters voted for this! The incompetence in Washington DC reaches Himilayan proportions! Language, borders, culture and now, OUR internet:
National Security Professionals and Cyber Experts Call for Pentagon Intervention on Surrender of the Internet
I wonder what we got in return and when do they stop freedom of virtual speech?
- MTG
Well, this was planned out years ago. Both Obama and FCC committee were releasing hints this was going to be done. The key issue here is money, not security. I personally believe that members in the FCC or Administration stand to get money for this since they can effect the current body that regulates domains, IPs, &c. Colleges have been screaming about this because, now, everyone will have to pay a foreign entity to register, deconflict, or administer domains. For some reason big companies like Google, Amazon, mom & pop stores, and others haven't bothered to lobby against this. They will be dishing out millions to a foreign board of skulking robber barons. I can't remember if it was Reagan who glommed on to this idea keeping it American to ensure we can navigate, occupy, and trade on the internet freely.
Once these rights have been delegated, Americans have lost a freedom!
From what I understand too, is that this inter'l body will develop rules and guidelines for using the internet. They will also determine subjectively and not in the realm of fairness to ensure most domains and host activities remain in Europe and not in the US where it is free and unfettered. Also, government entities, at all levels in the US, will have to dole out US tax dollars to pay for access and privileges on the web. Again, another bad situation for the US.
This will cause Congress to levy taxes on we the taxed. Congress wants SOPA/PIPA to pass; ultimately Congress wants to tax your key strokes and not protect us from piracy, intellectual theft, or pedophilia.
At center of all this is both US and international entertainment companies, too, lazy to protect their own material. US entertainment companies, who told Congress in March 2015, again, that privacy for domain registration should be “limited”. These and other companies want new tools to discover the identities of website owners whom they want to accuse of copyright and trademark infringement, preferably without court order or due process. They don't need a new mechanism for this—subpoenas for discovery of the identities of website owners are regularly issued. It's called follow the law---at least here in the US. Not so for Europe as the political and corporate elite do what they want. These companies are short sighted, if not lazy, and will help sell your rights off to Europe.
A central problem with many international intellectual property initiatives has been provisions seeking to expand the term of protection for copyrighted works, i.e., the duration of the copyright restrictions that apply to creative works. After the expiration of the term of protection, copyrighted works enter the public domain. Europe wants to control that and not because they are trying to protect their citizenry: amoral Europe strives to censor what is put onto the internet, how it's displayed, and to whom. The number one enemy to freedom or choice, freedom of speech, is the United States and everything derived from/in.
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but to promote the progress of science and useful parts, but give a government control on what is published, how it is published, and reason to curtail freedom of expression. To this end, copyright law assures authors the right to their original expression for a certain period of time, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. Limited copyright terms are essential to obtaining this objective, because they ensure that copyrighted works will eventually enter the public domain. Imagine being fined or arrested for translating a piece of work, article, or drawing from one language to another?! How about being fined for quoting a news piece or some literature you have not paid a stipend or fee?
International copyright law is murky. Remember, most countries despite being in the West only adhere to a form of democracy and rule of law. European countries in particular believe that at government issues you your rights and privileges rather than you are born with inherent freedoms.
This will allow a gov't to keep the general public silent. Officials can cite copyrights when you're trying to report or discuss items of interest or even convey protests. This creeps into all interactions of the internet, why the internet is free to dispense with censorship, allowing citizens to gripe, chat, share experiences, &c. A foreign committee, not dedicated to liberty for any stretch of the imagination, is going to determine who and what is on the internet. That is unbelievable.
To get smarter on this and burgeoning issues regarding your electronic freedoms, visit the Electronic Freedom Frontier, savedomainprivacy.org, or another coalition at respectourprivacy.com
- Matt Caldwell
