In War Against The Internet, China Is Just A Skirmish: 'New York Times'

NY Times:

PARIS -- In the beginning, there was one Internet, born from American research and embraced by academics around the world. It was in English and homogeneous, operating according to Western standards of openness.

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Comments

[rossb]

08:39 AM on 01/18/2010

Freedom of ACCURATE information equals ability to make correct choice which equals survival. To some, a free internet is threat #1 since it interferes with public consensus regarding tolerance of elite frauds and fleecing of "we, the people".

Freedom of information is crucial to civilization. The internet is leading to a new Renaissance (rebirth of civilization). Learn to THINK (and survive):

http://www.cli.gs/IntelligentChoice

[netzwerg]

05:16 AM on 01/18/2010

China has much cooler internetfeatures than we do have, like http://mp3.baidu.com/ where you can download any MP3 Song for free. Unfortunately this awesome chinese site is censored here in western europe, so I need an chinese proxy server to download all kinds of music for free from there.

[cardineau]

03:16 AM on 01/18/2010

Stick to your internal laws China ... the US government is covertly behind this Google standoff in hopes of better access to foment political trouble in your country.

[dream9]

05:18 AM on 01/18/2010

Yes, information is dangerous. Informed people are dangerous people. Watch out, China!

[CommonTator]

02:52 AM on 01/18/2010

While I fear the direct and indirect assaults directed at the open Internet...Perhaps I shouldn't.

And here's why:

American government cannot afford, in any sense, the repercussions of trying to impose serious regulation on the internet.

Hackers simply would not stand for it, and I'm quite certain they'd send the bully on the cyber playground home sans lunch money.

And the only real defense/offense against that would be to institute policies so draconian that even the perpetually shuddering American public would stand against them.

Such a conflict could go a long way toward wresting certain powers back from government that they had no business wielding to begin with.

[realitytrumpsbull]

05:41 AM on 01/18/2010

I think the Information Age has its' pitfalls and problems, in one sense the world wide web is the wild wild west, a realm in which fortunes can be made, massive amounts of data bought and sold, but there's also corporate espionage, international espionage, the spooks and freaks and geeks have free reign, and don't want anyone to impose on their digital liberties, and therein lies a problem, potentially.

[Mikeeee]

02:23 AM on 01/18/2010

It's the next thing Gov fear the most. people having access to info quickly can make them all look silly and of course they do not like that. Ergo bushco and their huge gathering of info (while using the fake fear of 9/11 as the excuse).