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Do you want political control over key internet infrastructure? Because that's how you get political control over key internet infrastructure...
by marcus_holmes 6y ago
Do you want political control over key internet infrastructure? Because that's how you get political control over key internet infrastructure...
- sofixa 6y agoThere is already implicit political control. If the US wants to ban X, or forbid encryption, it will impact almost everyone on the planet. Much less so if it were Afghanistan, of course. The EU has a funs that donates money and runs bug bounty programs for critical FOSS software it uses. It should be expanded to include more underlying libraries and lower-level projects, but it's a pretty good start and doesn't come with strings attached.
- marcus_holmes 6y ago> doesn't come with strings attached. yet
- rolandog 6y agoThe EU sounds like a great approach; do you know if and how often they re-evaluate the impact and level of their dependencies?
- dredmorbius 6y agoWhat we have now is corporate control, often with covert government influence, and benign-to-malicious neglect. I'm willing to risk public support in at least part.