The Internet may already be starting to break apart. IT World writes two days ago:
Regardless of the supposed criminal intent of the affected systems, the seizure without notice of these domain names by US authorities sent shock-waves around the Internet world. It got people’s attention in a much stronger way than version 1 of this enforcement operation had — the first iteration late last June seized the names of nine sites selling pirated first-run movies. Many people woke up to the reality of how vulnerable the DNS is to government meddling.
(More recently, the uproar caused by the WikiLeaks publication of US diplomatic cables — and subsequent attempts to censor the site and/or to hound it off the Internet — have resulted in what developer Dave Winer calls “a human DNS” implemented “in a weird sneaker-net sort of way,” via Twitter and ad hoc bulletin-board sites.)
Within days of the ICE/DHS seizures, at least three separate initiatives to work around the DNS had been announced, and several existing alternatives were highlighted in the ensuing discussion.
The article then goes on to discuss the details of the various new substitutes for the single unified international, but U.S. based, domain name system that has served the Internet for 25 years.
Back in August, after Google & Verizon announced a joint legislative proposal on network neutrality, certain people predicted disaster for the Internet. One cause, Net Neutrality, was substituted for the many aspects of Internet freedom and one phrase seemed to be on everyone’s lips:
Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now “could spell the end of the Internet as we know it.”
Craig Aaron at Huffington Post, “pact to end the Internet as we know it”
Countdown with Keith Olbermann “an end to the Internet as we know it”In August I poopooed the so-called threat posed by the Google/Verizon initiative, roundly criticized all of the above for begging the U.S. government to step in and protect our rights on the Internet, and after attempting to explain the central importance of the DNS and the international organizations that run it, gave my view on what would end the Internet as we know it. “As it stands now, no government in the world can enforce a domain name decision because they don’t run the domain name system that translates domain names like the DailyKos.com into IP addresses, and any attempt by a national government to seize control of the domain root server system would end the Internet as we know it.”
In a September diary, Obama’s Internet Coup d’état, I wrote:
This is a most important “technical” detail because ultimately for the U.S. government to be successful in enforcing these controls on the Internet it must either wrestle control of the root domain name servers [DNS] from the international ngo’s that have been running them, ICANN and InterNIC, or corrupt those organizations to it’s will. That is why I think it fair to call this a coup d’état and nothing less than an attempt by the U.S. government to takeover the Internet.
The now famous letter written by 87 of the engineers that have brought us the Internet warned of the same thing in September. Commenting on what they saw as the inevitable blow back from the Senate Internet Blacklist Bill, they said:
These problems will be enough to ensure that alternative name-lookup infrastructures will come into widespread use, outside the control of US service providers but easily used by American citizens. Errors and divergences will appear between these new services and the current global DNS, and contradictory addresses will confuse browsers and frustrate the people using them. These problems will be widespread and will affect sites other than those blacklisted by the American government.
Now this is exactly what is happening!
The cliché is coming true and we just may be witnessing the end of the single unified Internet we have known. Obama just may give Bush his Internets! Soon we may be saying: The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internets!
I also wrote in that diary:
Speaking as one of the peons, let me say we have labored, in some cases more than a quarter century, to build the Internet as a tool for human liberation, and to do this we have build organizations that I believe represent the absolute best in international cooperation and a body of excellent software, freely available to all, that has made the dream of instant, multimedia, global, lowcost and secure communications a reality. We will not go quietly into that goodbye!
Let the Cyber War Be Joined!Viva WikiLeaks!Viva Anonymous!Viva Operation Payback!
Here is a recap of my other DKos dairies on this subject:
Operation PayBack: 1st Cyber War Begins over WikiLeaks
The Internet Takeover: Why Google is Next
BREAKING: Goodbye Internet Freedom as Wikileaks is Taken Down
BREAKING NEWS: Obama Admin Takes Control of Internet Domains!
Things Even Keith Olbermann Won’t Cover - UPDATE: VICTORY!!!
Stop Internet Blacklist Bill Now!
Sweet Victory on Internet Censorship: Senate Backs Off!
Internet Engineers tell the Senate to Back Off!
Why is Net Neutrality advocate Free Press MIA?
Obama’s Internet Coup d’état
Julian Assange on Threat to Internet Freedom
FCC Net Neutrality’s Trojan Horse
Free Press: Country Codes for the Internet?
The Mountain comes to Mohammad
Keith Olbermann’s Deception
Court rules -> Google Must Be Evil & Maximize Profits
EFF on the Google\Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal
Google-Verizon: What is the Free Press Agenda?
End of the Internet As We Know It!
Free Press would make this Illegal!
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Sort by: Author DateWill the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship
Author: Electronic Frontier Foundation 2011/02/16
Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on
Tags: whistleblowers, censorship
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Why Senator Lieberman’s Censorship Law Is Unconstitutional And A Danger To Free Speech
Author: Techdirt 2011/01/08
Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak,
Tags: censorship, free speech
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Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags About How US Federal Gov’t Is One Of Its Biggest AWS Customers
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/30
While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting
Tags: amazon, censorship, crackdown
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NY Times Finally Speaks Out Against Financial Firms Blocking Wikileaks
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/27
One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications
Tags: press, censorship
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Wikileaks, Intermediary Chokepoints And The Dissent Tax
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/27
What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the
Tags: crackdown, dissent tak, censorship
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NYT on Banks and Wikileaks - a troubling prospect
Author: Boing Boing 2010/12/25
A New York Times editorial today on the recent actions of Bank America, Visa,
Tags: censorship, free speech, democracy
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Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store
Author: Edible Apple 2010/12/24
Explaining their position, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told the New York
Tags: apple, censorship
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Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech?
Author: Scripting News 2010/12/24
As far as I know the issues around Amazon’s decision to evict WikiLeaks from
Tags: amazon, censorship, free speech
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Now Random Webhosts Are Demanding Wikileaks Mirrors Be Taken Down Over Possibility Of DDoS
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/23
With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks —
Tags: crackdown, wikileaks mirrors, censorship, free speech
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JFK On Secrecy And Censorship
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/23
Glyn Moody points us to a blog post that has a video/audio clip of a John F.
Tags: censorship, jfk, free speech
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Why Are US Publications Downplaying The Significance Of Some Of Wikileaks’ Leaks
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/22
We still can’t quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan
Tags: press, journalism, censorship, dyncorp
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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is not welcome to attend WEF
Author: scripting news 2010/12/19
Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not welcome to attend this year’s
Tags: julian assange, censorship, crackdown
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Twitter explains why it’s not trending, as hackers play cat and mouse
Author: The Guardian - Technology 2010/12/09
Twitter has officially posted on its blog about the fact that the #wikileaks
Tags: crackdown, censorship, hackers
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Lieberman Praises Companies Helping Him Try To Censor Wikileaks
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/09
This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has
Tags: censorship, crackdown, joe liberman
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What Would Happen If Wikileaks Got Its Own Top Level Domain?
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/09
With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is
Tags: censorship, wikileaks aftermath
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If Assange Were In China, US Politicians Would Be Cheering Him On
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/09
We’ve pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to
Tags: julian assange, crackdown, censorship
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Amazon Won’t Host Wikileaks… But Will Sell The Leaked Cables For Your Kindle?
Author: Techdirt 2010/12/09
This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here.
Tags: censorship, amazon
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anger directed constructively is a creative energy
Yes, nothing wrong with being extremely indignant. And it can get verrry creative! #opmemebusting
Deepblank, okay if I use it in a posterous post for a #memebust?
@exiledsurfer censored? ArtificialEyes.tv, the website operated by artist and “Wikivisionary” Michael Parenti, appears to have been blocked and censored on at least one U.S. government computer network. While WikiLeaks-Movie.com is unable to verify this directly, we have learned from Parenti that his site has been “blocked in U.S. government networks”including the United States Air Force, an action which he states has been“confirmed by many sources.”
Parenti recently posted a screenshot of what appears to be a United States Air Force web browser blocking access to ArtificialEyes.tv. This screenshot was emailed to Parenti by an anonymous source. Information revealing the source of the screenshot and other information is blacked out. Referenced on the site is Blue Coat, which may in fact be the “application delivery network (ADN) specialist” providing network security, management and parental control offerings. Are their technologies and services supporting “Parenti Control” by the U.S. Government?
@exiledsurfer is a prolific thinker, artist and politrickster who was the first interviewed in our “Artists Leaking Visions” series. His artwork has been featured at The Nation, The Atlantic Wire, The Atlantic, WikiLeaks-Movie.com and numerous other galleries both on- and off-line. Increasingly he has become recognized not only as an artist but as a thought leader on the related topics of WikiLeaks, hacking, and social media.
While “inspired” by WikiLeaks and other institution-challenging organizations, Parenti is unique in that he at times takes on the very sources of his inspiration. Additionally, he aims his creative activism and digital venom at both the political left, right, up and down. By some views an insider, his independent creativity and tell-it-like-he-sees-it viewpoints make him an outsider at the same time
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The behavior of a close relative challenges assumptions about male supremacy in human evolution
Bonobo Chimps: Girls Rule! (by NationalGeographic)
Divide and Conquer Meme Bust by #Anonymiss
In my book, anonymiss are women no longer buying into traditional notions that other women are “the enemy” or “the competiton”. Women can be very sensitive to this meme when they have children, because the survival of the children might be at stake. In short, it’s the basic “divide and conquer” meme at play. But the meme can only flourish as long as we believe resources are scarce, and we do not look into the future at the price our children will pay for it.
Anonymisses wondered (in a piratepad months ago) …
What if we can bust that meme?
What if we can form intimate, rewarding and truth based relationships with our sisters?
What if there was support, empowerment, respect and honour between us?
