[Chapter-delegates] Internet Filtering

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

"Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lot of money and efforts are redundantly replicated when each nation
> tries to do that on its own. Rather than do it at a national level if
> it can be done at the global level by a central, neutral authority it
> can be more effectively done. .

I hope that you are joking. You are suggesting a central authority through 
which all of the Internet's traffic is channelled in order to be censored? 
Please tell me you are not suggesting this.

> IPV4 has there classes, IPv6 can have a hundred.  Class 7 would be for
> incorporated business, Class 14 for accreditted academic institutions,
> 90 can be child pornography, Class 94 for Soft Pornogrphy, Class 98
> for Potentially Destructive.
>
> Australia and the World can choose to shut out Class 90,98 while
> Palestine and a few other nations could shut out 94 and 98 and so on
>
> A Class 7 IP address abusing its IP with class 98 content could be
> centrally shut out.

The Internet has succeeded because it has remained neutral to the traffic is 
has carried. Basically you can throw anything you want at it and it will 
carry it where you want it to be carried. Without this *fundamental* rule, 
companies like Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Hotmail would not exist. Dividing the 
Internet into classes of content will:

1. bring an end to the Internet itself
2. bring an end to freedom of speech, and thus,
3. bring an end to democracy worldwide

This is short of the end of the world - I am *not* kidding.

If some governments wish to censor traffic on their backbone or in/out of 
their backbone, it is their own choice. I wonder if it is the choice of 
their people.
I am sorry to write such a harsh reply, Sivasubramanian, but you are 
touching on a subject and making suggestions that would eventually lead to 
your type of traffic, say Class 1984 (free speech), being shut down. Is this 
really what you wish? I suggest you read the book by George Orwell.

Kind regards,

Olivier

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