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I spoke to Peter Stoffer (NDP MP for Sackville - Eastern Shore) this morning. He and other MPs (Including Conservative MP Joy Smith, and past NDP MP Chris Axworthy) have tabled similar sounding private members bill aimed at reducing child pornography on the Internet. Their idea is this: if you require ISPs to be licensed the same way that broadcasters are licensed, then you have a policy lever to use to then force the ISPs to become cyber-police to deal with various things that are undesirable on the Internet.
Sackville--Eastern Shore
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/12008
I consider this thinking is backwards. The actual effect would be to centralize the ability to publish on the Internet the same way we currently have centralization for traditional media. The benefits of the Internet, such as what made finding Christopher Neil quickly possible, would be lost. All the democracy and economic enhancing aspects of the Internet would be lost.
How can we get politicians to realize that there is great benefit to new media, not just threats?
I don't know that cyber-warfare should be seen all that new. Hitting the economic infrastructure of a country as part of warfare or "terrorism" has always been done, and communications media is simply part of that economic infrastructure. It may seem interesting and new only because much of the Internet itself is interesting and new to most people.
I do believe that we need to get governments to switch their current thinking. Rather than centralizing the control over networks, thus making them more vulnerable to attack, we need to decentralize control. This involves ensuring that the owners of the different nodes and routers on the Internet are not only able to control their own technology, but that they are legally expected to. Concepts such as "DRM" which are aimed at disallowing owners from controlling and securing their own hardware and software should be made illegal as a threat to basic economic infrastructure.
Posted by: Russell McOrmond | October 25, 2007 06:38 PM
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