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Vint Cerf: 'The Internet Is For Everyone'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-as-you-go dept.

Joel Rowbottom writes "Vint Cerf has written a damn fine RFC (3271), entitled 'The Internet Is For Everyone'. It's a good, well-balanced document which details the 'Internet Society's ideology' about the growth of the 'Net, where we can go now, and where we might be in some years' time. Worth a read."

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  1. Users as consumers? by Florian+Weimer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Vint Cerf seems to view users mainly as consumers. He doesn't even mention the danger of proprietary protocols, trade secrets and patents, and the domination of big media conglomerates, which has already started to divide the Internet in the content-producing Rich and the content-consuming Poor.

    It's unfortunate that the days of the beginning Internet mass media, on which everyone could publish more or less equally, rapidly become history, and nobody seems to regret it.

  2. Internet for the wealthy, by the rest of us ... by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful



    Things always go this way - the people built stuffs, useful stuffs, and then the wealthy and powerful will come and take it away.

    Internet is just the latest "useful stuff" about to be taken away from us.

    Who's the "wealthy and powerful" in this case ?

    Ask Hollywood.

    Ask Disney's Eisner.

    And ask that "Mickey Mouse Senator".

    With all the existing and upcoming draconian laws, the Net will be taken away from us.

    Not just copyright. Not just royalties.

    The Net is what they are after.

    We, the Netizens, are "out of control", so they are here to "provide law and order".

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !