[Rejestr] Timothy Garton Ash na temat praw obywatelskich w internecie, na łamach Guardiana

[Alek Tarkowski]

witam,

polecam też tekst Timothy'ego Garton Asha (mało oczywistego felietonistę
w sprawach "internetowych", ale w oczywisty sposób zajmującego się
takimi wartościami jak wolność, itd.), opublikowany niedawno w
Guardiania. Ash zaczyna od konfliktu Chin z Google, ale na koniec
uogólnia swój wywód.

dla niecierpliwych i pozbawionych wolnego czasu, kluczowe zakończenie, w
którym opowiada się za obywatelską samo-regulacją sieci:

"In thinking about the way information is supplied to us, we have, it
seems to me, four possible approaches: (1) the state I live in decides
what I can and cannot see, and that's OK; (2) the big companies I rely
on (Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Microsoft, Apple, China Mobile) select what I
see, and that's OK; (3) I want to be free to see anything I like.
Uncensored news from everywhere, all of world literature, manifestos of
every party and movement, jihadist propaganda, bomb-making instructions,
intimate details of other people's private lives, child pornography –
all should be freely available. Then it's up to me to decide what I'll
look at (the radical libertarian option); (4) everyone should be free to
see everything, except for that limited set of things which clear,
explicit global rules specify should not be available. The job of
states, companies and netizens is then to enforce those international norms.

At the moment, we have a combination of (1) and (2). Developments in
technology will give us more of (3), whether we like it or not. (4)
currently looks like a pipe dream. Nonetheless, it is to (4) that we
should aspire. It's in the infosphere that the world is coming closest,
fastest, to a global village, so it's the infosphere that most urgently
needs a global debate about the village rules. If we don't have that
debate, and have it soon, then what you get to see on your screen will
be the result of a power struggle between the old-fashioned power of the
state in which you happen to be, the new-style power of the giant
information companies, the insurgent force of novel information
technologies, and the ingenuity of individual netizens. That's a likely
outcome, but not the best."

Pozdrowienia,

Alek Tarkowski

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dr Alek Tarkowski
koordynator projektu / project coordinator
ICM UW
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