EU suspends ratification of copyright treaty ACTA
but soon after...The ITU began discussing changes that would bring in international governance of the internet.
Update, July 10: ACTA Lives: How the EU & Canada Are Using CETA as Backdoor Mechanism To Revive ACTA
So what's there to do?
Well, boycotting a pending regulation won't do much, boycott the people and the companies generating those regulations. This is what I mean.
But wait, they don't have valid arguments for imposing Internet control, right? Wrong! Ongoing security concerns, break-ins, cyberterrorism, malware, child pornography, Anonymous striking everywhere. Wasn't the Internet intended to be a repository for information and services in the first place? All of this could sounds very convincing for a lawmaker.
How will they do it?
IP, DNS, URL, packet filtering
Connection reset / router cutoff
portal censorship (blocking sites from popular social networks and search engines)
DDoS
or just go for the classic approach -- censorship methods used with traditional media.
So how will the Internet look if it goes dark? Pretty dull, I'd guess.
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