[CWN-Summit] G8: Protect the Net

Mitar mitar at tnode.com
Mon May 23 03:41:35 CDT 2011


Hi!

> people will have other worries than copyright or any other law that
> is irrelevant in times of crisis.

Copyright and other exploiting laws will be used as an excuse from those
big companies for economic crisis: because we cannot earn profit we
cannot have people employed. And it could be used to direct people
against each other, saying that those pirates are guilty and so on. And
some will believe them. It will not solve the problem for anybody, but
it could make organization among ourselves harder.

> People will also realize that they cannot trust the big Telcos, because
> these will always side with whoever is in power, so they're complicit in
> establishing censorship.

Until big Telcos will give them Facebook and iTunes they will side with
them.

> It's time that people learn to build their own networks, to emerge from
> mere consumers to creators, to shape the future instead of following the
> lemmings beyond the edge of the cliff...

90 % people do not want this. ;-)

Or at least this is what we are lead to believe.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy.html

> Imagine every Internet user putting an antenna on their balcony/roof,
> cancelling their Internet subscription and donating the money to the
> local community wireless network...

I am afraid of this vision because things will work worse then what we
are currently given by at least our ISPs. I see community wireless
networks as an addition to existing infrastructure (if any) and not a
replacement.


Mitar


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