Wednesday, May 25, 2011

G-8 Leaders: We Want to Mess with the Internet

Leaders of the Group of 8 industrialized countries are set to issue a call for stronger internet regulation, a cause championed by the host of the meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, but opposed by internet companies and free-speech groups, reports NyTi.

Ostensibly, the leaders want measures to protect children from online predators, to strengthen privacy rights and to crack down on digital copyright piracy, but as Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein once told me in another context, "The devil is always in the details." All kinds of paragraphs and clauses are slipped into such measures that benefit the elitist few at the expense of the rest of us.

Creation of power centers, and such internet "protection" measures would result in the creation of a global power center, always give an edge to the elitists and globalists, who can influence the power centers.

Tuesday in a speech by Sarkozy, before an audience that included top executives of some of the world’s largest internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay, he said:
The universe you represent is not a parallel universe.Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies.
That should be warning enough as to who he thinks should control the internet, "for the good of democracy". And he is talking about "control", not the free development of thoughts, ideas and reporting of news.

10 comments:

  1. "Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies."

    I just threw up a little bit. It's also interesting to note the collectivist undertones that Sarkozy puts in this statement by phrasing it as a unified "will" of the people.

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  2. Sarkozy..."Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate masters of the people in our democracies." Some truth wizard from a parallel universe (?) kept changing the wording when I tried to copy the sentence. Do you think it is telling us something?

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  3. If you wouldn't mind, please throw up again, Anon. I just ate something and I'd like for it to stay down.

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  4. I hate the state. The Internet is the best tool for liberation in history, so of course they find it necessary to restrict it.

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  5. "Of course its all about the kiddies, not about how power crazed and dumb we are"

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  6. No! No! No! Its all good and well intentioned, my friends.

    They are doing this to stop the internet being taken down by rabid Sarah Palin Fans, getting torrent versions of her feature length film because they have been prevented from seeing it in a theater because the Illuminati or somebody have prevented a general release under the laughably transparent excuse that nobody would want to watch it.

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  7. That last quote makes me sick. It'll be interesting to see how many mindless nitwits on the left and right fall right in line with this kind of thinking. God forbid people actually ever think for themselves.

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  8. The Internet will interpret the G-8 leaders as damage and route around them.

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  9. "The universe you represent is not a parallel universe. Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies."

    And YOU Sir, should remember that you are only legitimate as long as WE say so... Best keep that in mind.

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  10. Lamestream Media: Universe of misinformation.

    Internet Media: Universe of truth.

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