For decades many expected a revolution that did not arrive or when there was ended by becoming the opposite of what he wanted. It is an interesting contradiction that a technology produced by the needs of capitalist development, has resulted in the main tool to confront the system as we know it. Given the hegemony of the conservative media and political interests related to economic, internet allows more freedom of opinion and access to information not controlled or censored.
However, there are cases that demonstrate that States are concerned about the ease of access to information that lets network. China and its army of more than fifteen thousand hackers dedicated to block web pages and identify people who access them, is a sign of things to come. There are also voices who talk about the Internet as an element of national defense of the country, which could lead to legislative proposals that substantially limit access and creation of places on the net. Cobweb
network expansion is geometric in almost all countries. If we could display the amount of fiber optic cables and wireless signals across the planet, we would see a web of crisscrossed over the entire earth's surface. Following this picture, we can realize the magnitude of the technological tool in which we are involved. Internet is present with increasing depth in the relationships we build, and therefore moved our ideas, beliefs, taboos and myths that are placed or discussed there.
is no coincidence that we find a sustained activity of extremism of all kinds in the network and attempts to present alternative information and knowledge. This leads to the traditional media to take two antagonistic positions against the network: those who seek to adapt their supply and openly provide it to users, and those who seek to establish barriers to access to information. It is expected that attempts to limit or censor access, end up being swept by a reality in which the ownership of information or knowledge is increasingly relative.
ICANN and servers
Although only just over 20% of the global population have Internet access, political influence largely relates to actions or guidelines proposed for those who no exercise their rights and freedoms, to make their living standards. And this begins to be subversive to the established order, which is not how a network address virtually autonomous, but still depends on a number of political relations, which are not known the background.
ICANN is an organization associated with the U.S. Commerce Department, which manages the licensing system of addresses, and can override the rule of a country and thereby remove it from the network, without any international law to such cases. In 2004 the domain (l) of Libya was removed from the network for days because of a dispute. Considering that the U.S. does not agree to relinquish control of the domains to the UN, as proposed in World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005, and there are thirteen mega servers to the Internet work, of which nine are in their territory, it is necessary to focus in detail the work that ICANN is exercising. Saramago
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Today there is an entire parallel universe unfolded before our eyes on the screens of computers, which will be used according to their interests, abilities or limitations. This universe would be an ecstasy to the great minds of mankind if they were alive. Those who are born with the network see it as something natural, but perhaps the most unexpected way that humanity is taking place, without understanding even what this revolution means and implies for our notion of spatial, temporal and human relations.
Saramago few years ago, criticizing the limitations of the network, said a tear ever scribbling a message as it does in a letter, but such is the intensity of human relationships on the network, perhaps the word in which write not stain with tears, but it is undeniable that emotions, feelings, passions, ideas, desires, wishes, ideals, and many human conditions, have already an almost syncretic with the scope of the network. Things like that, it is necessary not only to analyze the technical and obvious, given in the use of the network, but testing on the significance of this human relationship with a product of his creation that became autonomous. And keep your eyes wide open from attempts to control the network, as it is for everyone. Alexander Sack
May 13 2010
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