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24 November 2013
Key Internet Institutions Ditch US Leadership; Brazil To Host Global Summit To Draw Up New Governance Model
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Here's a hugely important story that brings together three major threads. First, the continuing wrangling over the form that Interne...
Europe's Largest Internet Exchange Decides To Open US Office, Risks Making Itself Subject To NSA Demands
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The Internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes have to be joined together. That takes place at Internet exchanges (IXs), where ...
09 March 2013
Will The ITU's Increasing Focus On Control And Surveillance Split The Internet?
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Techdirt covered the WCIT circus in Dubai in some depth last year, since important issues were at stake. As many feared, after a moment ...
10 February 2013
German Court Recognizes That An Internet Connection Is Now Indispensable For Modern Life
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The German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has acknowledged that an Internet connection is indispensable for life in the modern worl...
06 January 2013
Mozilla Helped To Stop SOPA In January, Now It's Worried About WCIT
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Mike wrote how both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were concerned about the outcome of the WCIT talks currently taking place in Dubai...
08 December 2012
Batting on a Sticky WCIT, Defending Openness
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As I mentioned a few months back, the ITU' s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) starts today in Dubai. H...
11 November 2012
OECD Gets It: The Internet Works, So Don't Break It
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Yesterday I wrote about an extraordinarily clueless document from an arm of the UN that seemed to have no real understanding of what th...
23 June 2012
The Battle For Net Neutrality Flares Up Again: But Which Countries Still Have It?
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Net Neutrality has suddenly become a hot topic again. Partly, that's thanks to some awful ideas about regulating the Internet coming ...
10 June 2012
Help To Save The World: Go Online
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Too often we read that the Internet is making us stupid or fat , or destroying the "fabric of society." Indeed, judging by th...
28 February 2012
The Struggle Between Copyright and the Internet
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January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of the Internet – and of copyright. For on that day, the English-lang...
04 February 2012
If Politicians Pushing SOPA/PIPA Want To Create Jobs, They Should Support The Internet -- And Stop Treating Copyright Companies As Special
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A key element of the political rhetoric around SOPA/PIPA was the idea that it was about jobs , and that jobs are so critical in the curren...
19 January 2012
File Sharing Without The Internet: The Saharan Bluetooth Experience
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A couple of months ago, Techdirt wrote about an EU politician's plan to build Internet surveillance into every operating system. As ...
04 January 2012
Beyond The Internet Of Things Towards A Sensor Commons
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Already it's clear that one of the hot tech topics of 2012 will be "The Internet of Things" – the idea that even the most mu...
03 November 2011
India Wants UN Body To Run The Internet: Would That Be Such A Bad Thing?
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The Internet is under attack – but not, as politicians would have us believe, from hordes of cyber criminals , but from the politicians th...
10 January 2011
Interview with Meedabyte
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I asked Glyn’s help to answer many questions that came to my mind in the latest few months that shown how tough the fight to keep the Intern...
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21 September 2010
Intellectual Monopolies, the Open Net and ACTA
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Well, it was bound to come one day, but it's still shocking : A group of senators want to hand the U.S. Department of Justice the power ...
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24 November 2009
The Internet's Infinite Subversion
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Another nicely clueful piece in the Guardian : The emancipatory potential of the free dissemination of intellectual property through infini...
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03 November 2009
ACTA's All-out Assault on the Internet
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Michael Geist has some deeply disturbing details about what may well be in the Internet section of ACTA: 1. Baseline obligations inspired...
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30 August 2008
The End of the American Net
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Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three...
20 June 2008
Chinese Whispers
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Interesting : Zheng argues that while China is making no meaningful progress toward democratization, the Internet is nonetheless causing &qu...
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