Re: [irtf-discuss] Why the World Must Resist Calls to Undermine the Internet

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Why the World Must Resist Calls to Undermine the Internet
Andrew Sullivan, 02.03.2022
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/03/why-the-world-must-resist-calls-to-undermine-the-internet/

Dear friends,

Andrew Sullivan rightly pointed out in his text that "the Internet is 
for everyone". Absolutely right in the idea.

But the reality is different. The technical players acting today are not 
interested in a free global communication of people, but in a 
commercialization and capitalization of their needs for communication.

This result did not come about by chance, but was already the essential 
guiding principle at the beginning by the government of the USA under 
Ronald Reagan. The original concept of "the inter-connection of local 
Net-works", which is necessarily based on local networks, became a 
privately and state organized system of interconnected star-systems, 
"the inter-connection of private Star-Systems".

This interconnection of star-systems creates the possibility to organize 
access and exclusion according to arbitrary criteria. And we see today 
that the system of a free global communication has turned into a field 
of censorship and private control mania, organized by countries calling 
themselves "the West". Already the naming points to organized bullshit, 
because the planet is a sphere and not a disk and thus any directions 
can lead to the same goal.

The actors of this fragmentation and breaking of a free human 
communication "without borders" are those who call themselves 
representatives of a "free world", but in fact trample every diversity 
with military boots. Every form of racial mania a'la Cecil Rhodes is put 
back on the table. Lying and hypocrisy is the form of communication that 
is now elevated to the absolute.

The idea of telecommunication in the form of an Internet that does not 
adhere to private or governmental or geographical boundaries, as we saw 
with Jonathan Postel, was destroyed at the very beginning of the life of 
an Internet. Today we see what a monster of small-minded power madness 
it has developed into, where only private profit interests and state 
delusions of control apply.

The alternative always remains. A telecommunication in the form of an 
internet, which rests on local networks and thus enables free access to 
all people of our planet, independent of their social situation and 
geographical position.

That and only that is a "net of nets".

with kind regards, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay



in german -----------------------------------------------------------

Liebe freunde,

Andrew Sullivan hat zu Recht in seinem Text darauf hingewiesen, "the 
Internet is for everyone". Absolut richtig in der Idee.

Aber die Wirklichkeit sieht anders aus. Die heute agierenden technischen 
Akteure sind nicht an einer freien globalen Kommunikation der Menschen 
interessiert, sondern an einer Kommerzialisierung und Kapitalisierung 
ihrer Beduerfnisse nach Kommunikation.

Dieses Resultat ist nicht zufaellig entstanden, sondern war bereits zu 
Anfang das wesentliche Leitmotiv durch die Regierung der USA unter 
Ronald Reagan. Das urspruengliche Konzept "the Inter-connection of local 
Net-works", das ja notwendig auf lokalen Netzwerken ruht, wurde zu einem 
privat und staatlich organisierten System von verbundenen Sternsystemen, 
"the inter-connection of private Star-Systems".

Diese Verbindung von Stern-Systemen schafft die Moeglichkeit, nach 
beliebigsten Kriterien den Zugang und Ausschluss zu organisieren. Und 
wir sehen heute, dass sich das System einer freien globalen 
Kommunikation zu einem Feld der Zensur und privatem Kontrollwahn 
entwickelt hat, das von Laendern organisiert wird, die sich "der Westen" 
nennen. Schon die Namensgebung deutet auf organisierten Schwachsinn, 
weil der Planet eine Kugel und keine Scheibe ist und damit beliebige 
Richtungen zum gleichen Ziel fuehren koennen.

Die Akteure dieser Zersplitterung und Zerbrechung einer freien 
menschlichen Kommunikation "ohne Grenzen" sind jene, die sich als 
Vertreter einer "freien Welt" bezeichnen, tatsaechlich aber jede 
Diversitaet mit militaerischen Stiefeln zertrampeln. Jede Form des 
Rassenwahns a'la Cecil Rhodes wird wieder auf den Tisch gestellt. Die 
Luege und Heuchelei ist diejenige Form der Kommunikation, die nun zum 
absoluten Mass erhoben wird.

Die Idee einer Telekommunikation in Form eines Internet, das sich nicht 
an private oder staatliche oder geografische Grenzen haelt, wie wir es 
bei Jonathan Postel sahen, wurde schon zu Beginn der Lebensphase eines 
Internet zerstoert. Heute sehen wir, zu welchem Monster kleingeistigem 
Machtwahns es sich entwickelt hat, wo nur noch private Profitinteressen 
und staatlicher Kontrollwahn gelten.

Die Alternative bleibt immer existent. Eine Telekommunikation in Form 
eines internet, das auf lokalen Netzwerken ruht und so allen Menschen 
unseres Planeten den freien Zugang ermoeglicht, unabhaengig von ihrer 
sozialen Lage und geografischen Position.

Das und nur das ist ein "Netz der Netze".

mit lieben gruessen, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay