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No More IP Addresses For Countries That Shut Down Internet Access (theregister.co.uk)
Governments that cut off internet access to their citizens could find themselves refused new IP addresses under a proposal put forward by one of the five global IP allocation organizations. From a report: The suggested clampdown will be considered at the next meeting of internet registry Afrinic in Botswana in June: Afrinic is in charge of managing and allocating IP address blocks across Africa. Under the proposal, a new section would be added to Afrinic's official rules that would allow the organization to refuse to hand over any new IP address to a country for 12 months if it is found to have ordered an internet shutdown. The ban would cover all government-owned entities and others that have a "direct provable relationship with said government." It would also cover any transfer of address space to those entities from others. That withdrawal of services would escalate if the country continued to pull the plug on internet access. Under the proposal: "In the event of a government performing three or more such shutdowns in a period of 10 years -- all resources to the aforementioned entities shall be revoked and no allocations to said entities shall occur for a period of 5 years."
So, IPv6 will become a tool of oppression?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
So how are partial shutdowns like whatsapp or twitter or youtube (bad videos which insult maximo lider) handled?
And how are these youtube shutdowns vs. shutdowns for alleged terrorism, copyright infringement, etc. handled?
How is a youtube shutdown for insulting some powerful asshole worse than shutting down a site for infringement or propaganda?
Or even: the many year long ban of music on youtube in Germany since there was a lawsuit against youtube by GEMA? Is this a shutdown or not, is this a government action under this new bylaw of AfriNIC or not?
They go on very very thin ice here, which will be politicized in no time. They'd be utterly stupid to even consider this. But they are politicians and functionaries, so stupidity is probably an entrance requirement.
Dear Cretin, since when is Afrinic - the regional internet registry for AFRICA - a part of Trump's America?
So as long as it's not nationwide, it's ok? US police shut down cell service for hours to stop protestors, who almost certainly weren't planning anything actually dangerous.
Take a look at the history of the pirate bay sometime.
Blocking one site which points to illegal content is nowhere near the same as a country shutting down access to the entire internet.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower