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[Fred Baker]

Very interesting article, and unusually well done for a journalist. Many journalists, when writing on Internet-related things, manage to put words in people's mouths or otherwise misunderstand reality in ways that - well, to pick a recent example, had the Chair of the IETF explaining a misrepresented remark on the IETF list.

Yes, the pressure to balkanize the net is real. That said, it remains the place where we can talk with ourselves and do business. To pick one obvious example from the article, it commented that FB users spend six hours a month in the site and communicate primarily using FB messaging. The hours may be correct; everyone I know that uses FB also sends SMTP mail like this email and uses a telephone, often for text messaging in addition to voice. Do they also use FB? As you know, I do. But that is one of many capabilities, not one that takes over the world.

On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Franck Martin wrote:

> http://economist.com/node/16963563
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> GOVERNMENTS are increasingly finding ways to enforce their laws in the digital realm. The most prominent is China’s “great firewall”. But China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace. The OpenNet Initiative, an advocacy group, lists more than a dozen countries that block internet content for political, social and security reasons. They do not need especially clever technology: governments go increasingly after dominant online firms because they are easy to get hold of. In April Google published the numbers of requests it had received from official agencies to remove content or provide information about users. For more on how governments and companies are erecting borders in cyberspace see article.
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