European Commission proposes a reform to the way the Internet is managed and run
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#2That's really awesome, and I hope it succeeds.
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#3Wonder what they'll do it the US just says no.
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#4Wonder what they'll do it the US just says no.
*when
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#6No governments please! Internet governance is fine as is. European opportunism and grandstanding is of no use to anyone.
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#7Shame Neelie Kroes will be gone soon. She's been pushing some pretty good digital agendas with her position in the EU Commission. Hopefully her work won't be undone by whoever replaces her after the EU elections.
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#8Wonder what they'll do it the US just says no.
They'll put more and harsher regulations on American companies until they say yes. So I'm fine with whatever decision US makes, because I wouldn't mind if US companies (and the US government by proxy) wouldn't have a monopoly on EU users's data anymore.
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#9Like the governance in England where the government decides what you should be watching? Perhaps they'll uses the French model and make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government. Or perhaps they'll adopt the Turkish attitude of jail time for those who speak the truth (if Turkey gets into the EU). How are they better than the American model of Uncle Sam lurking in the background of everyone's lives waiting for the wrong words to be written so the entrapment teams can be sent.
Government control of the internet, by any government, will inevitably lead to censorship.
Edit: to address comments
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
There is an ongoing program to introduce a broad system of default blocking of certain types of content to all Internet users in the UK. New customers have their Internet access filtered at the ISP level so that certain web sites are blocked
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#10"globalise key decision-making (for example the coordination of domain names and IP addresses) to safeguard the stability, security and resilience of the Internet"
Sounds like they want to make the internet a more centrally-controlled thing "to protect you better". Internet does not need any central oversight and regulation. People just need freedom to move their bytes around as cheap as possible. We are capable to figure out how to build secure schemes, encrypted channels etc on our own, completely voluntarily. Everyone is able to choose tools and protocols that suit them best.