Current access to
the Internet poses a series of problems to individual rights such as
privacy issues, intelectual property threats coming from
the terms of
use (the contract). It seems the internet has evolved into a national
security tool for the United States. Yet the whole world makes use of
it. For US people some irruption into their cyberlives might be
acceptable as long as it ensures their security and freedom. To the
rest of us there is no benefit. I do not know if in the United States
there are means to prevent other people from breaking into one's web connections. I
guess there are, since it looks like they trust the internet for
business. In my case that is not possible. I am outside the United
States and I have never felt secure on the internet. Attacks to any
of my web accounts have been common. Breaking passwords appears to be
really easy. So it is hard for me to pass a credit card into any web
service. One last and devastating issue on internet
terms of use is
that providers determine what you can upload or not. They define
political correctness rules for anything you upload, even if it is a
simple letter to a close friend. So the internet has become some kind
of
big
brother that molds even your thoughts.
I think there is
a lot of room for a new and very different electronic network. One
that guarantees privacy, security, freedom, property and which should
be world-wide dispersed so it does not become a national security
instrument for a particular country. If it can happen it will come
true. American corporations are surely going to refuse it. Are
american individuals going to take it?
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