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Who in the room was the advocate for open internet? I don't want my future to look like the Apple Store or AT&T's closed network. I won't accept it.
by andyl 13y ago
Who in the room was the advocate for open internet?
I don't want my future to look like the Apple Store or AT&T's closed network. I won't accept it.
- acgourley 13y agoFirst sentence mentions Vint Cerf. Founding father of the internet, recently wrote this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-...
- andyl 13y agoWhat has Cerf had to say about NSA spying on Americans? Has he expressed outrage? Concern? No. As a public spokesman for Google, he has offered no solutions to increase the privacy protections for Americans. Rather, he seems to claim that privacy protections can't be done. (http://gigaom.com/2013/07/09/internet-inventor-no-technological-cure-for-privacy-ills/ http://gigaom.com/2013/07/09/internet-inventor-no-technologi...)
- mh- 13y agothe first sentence.. Google Inc computer scientist Vint Cerf and transparency advocates also participated in the meeting [..]
- malandrew 13y agoI would hope that Tim Berners Lee, Lawrence Lessig and Eben Moglen would all be there. Even Stallman should be present, since he most often is right despite coming across as a madman to some, and because he drops the anchor so far in the direction of privacy that people like TBL and LL look like the rational moderates that they are in this conversation. Unfortunately the radicals in favor of the surveillance state already have the ear of the President and Congress in this conversation. The presence of Stallman would add a much needed balance. Who else does the HN community think should be present advocating on behalf of the free and open internet?
- SimHacker 13y agoJohn Gilmore! http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Gilmore_v_NSA/ http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Gilmore_v_NSA/ "That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee -- with physics and mathematics, not with laws -- that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications." "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- andyl 13y agoVint represents the interests of Google - a giant corporation who's very reason for existence is to track every aspect of your life. Google is Big Business and Big Surveillance all in one. At its core, Google is opposed to anonymity and privacy.