[Chapter-delegates] Lybian Internet Outage

[Joly MacFie]

In the Students Free for Free Culture Conf that I streamed today
naturally these topics came up, especially during Susan Crawford &
diaspora segments.  I will post vid later, although some can be seen
via the chapters livestream channel.
hrttp://livestream.com/internetsocietychapters

On the Kill Switch Susan's response was that the President already has
wide ranging emergency powers, and the proposed legislation, if not
moot, is a red herring.

The students showed a growing awareness of,  a good deal of enthusiasm
for, and reported some progress on, mesh networking. They wondered
whether diaspora , or the new freedom box initiative, could provide a
working framework for same..Obviously this might still be cut off from
the outside world, but it would at least be independent of central
switches - now becoming plainly desirable.

j



On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Franck Martin <franck at avonsys.com> wrote:
> All these events prompted the Lieberman "kill switch" US bill to be reworded to put crystal clear that the US president cannot switch off the Internet.
>
> It is progress but more work to be done...
>
>
> Franck Martin
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com>
> To: "Sivasubramanian M" <isolatedn at gmail.com>, "Franck Martin" <franck at avonsys.com>, chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Sent: Sunday, 20 February, 2011 2:38:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Lybian Internet Outage
>
> Siva,
> Any government can do it, where there's not enough liberal legal
> framework, or enough private Internet service providers. And they can
> do it as much as they want. But I don't expect something like that to
> happen in majority of countries. We'll see also how this will
> influence the debate on Internet governance - remember that one of the
> arguments of the proponents for more governmental control was that the
> Internet will be "more secure".
>
> I wonder also if ISOC should not come with some strong language
> statement "in principle" about the need for freedom of the Internet.
>
>
> Best,
> Veni
> http://www.veni.com
> (via blackberry)
>
>
> On 2/19/11, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good to know. But what really happened? Was this an instance of a
>> Government shutting down the Internet, or was it a politically
>> insignificant outage that was restored after a short time?
>>
>> If Libya can do it for half a day, it can do it indefinitely; If Libya
>> can do it, most of the rest of the world can do it.
>>
>> Sivasubramanian M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>>> They're back online.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Veni
>>> http://www.veni.com
>>> (via blackberry)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/19/11, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This is quite upsetting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sivasubramanian M
>>>> http://isolatednetwork.com
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Franck Martin <franck at avonsys.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/libyan-disconnect-1.shtml
>>>>> http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/libya_pulls_plug.png
>>>>>
>>>>> Franck Martin
>>>>> http://www.avonsys.com/
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