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posted by martyb on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-you-don't-know-won't-hurt-us dept.

Techdirt has a story that is quite disturbing on many levels:

Forget banning TikTok, the Trump State Department just suggested it wants to basically ban China from the internet. Rather than promoting an open internet and the concept of openness, it appears that under this administration we're slamming the gates shut and setting up the Great American Firewall for the internet. Under the guise of what it calls the Clean Network to Safeguard America, last night Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a program that is full of vague statements, that could, in practice, fragment the internet.

This is incredibly disappointing on multiple levels. While other countries -- especially China, but also Iran and Russia -- have created their own fragmented internet, the US used to stand for an open internet across the globe. Indeed, for whatever complaints we had about the State Department during the Obama administration (and we had many complaints), its commitment to an open internet was very strong and meaningful. That's clearly now gone. The "Clean Network to Safeguard America" consists of five programs that can be summed up as "fuck you China."

So much for Internet openness.

Also At:
USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan


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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:03PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:03PM (#1033812) Journal

    we are the media, we are the internet.

    My homepage is a reflection of my mind in a way I never expected to experience, when I look at it it feels like a part of me. If it went down I would feel like a part of me was gone.

    My keyboard as I type this and my lcd screen as I read what I type feel very integrated, if klunky.

    There is still a line, for now, but imagining a world where I could no longer type my ideas, without computers, would change the actual mechanics of my meatspace mind. You as you read what I type, well, it is a form of klunkly telepathy, a real hive mind.

    The internet connects us quite a lot like the roots of trees connect them. So although you are technically somewhat correct, as BGP does route around failed routes automatically, that is what an AS is btw if you are new to this, most people if they lost their home connection would ask their neighbor to borrow their wifi, as if programmed to do so.

    Marshal McLuhan would have a ball with this, but at the moment the best you get is little old me.

    I do my best though.

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