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Brazil wants to catch the spies and will host global summit on Internet governance next April
Brazil, which has slammed massive US electronic spying on its territory, said on Wednesday it would host a global summit on Internet governance in April. President Dilma Rousseff made the announcement after conferring in Brasilia with Fadi Chehade, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“The United States and its allies must urgently end their spying activities once and for all”
Oct 10th, 2013 - 03:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0How naive are some country's leaders? Brazil is the ONLY country in the world that doesn't spy? Me thinks you assume the rest if the world are as stupid as you Dilma.
As for the UN taking over internet governance, I seem to remember those shining examples of freedom and honesty such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea wanting something similar. Wow they never spy on anyone....
I for one do not wish for countries such as those to control the internet. By all means create your own, however don't be surprised if most of us prefer the current model and ignore your utopian controlled and sanitised version.
Dilma seems obsessed and frantic over this spying. One has to start thinking that she has some concerns of “some matter” becoming public.
Oct 10th, 2013 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Dilma.
No, I think this is an excellent idea. And long overdue. I can see how numerous “patriotic” organisations, such as the Abu Nidal Organisation, al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Army of Islam, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Hammas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad Union, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and many, many more, would be “outraged” to find that their communications were being “tapped”. What is the world coming to?
Oct 10th, 2013 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Always worth remembering that, while some of us here use the internet for such things as posting “comments”, searching for information and sending/receiving messages, others use it for less benign purposes.
But let us get down to specifics. Brazil is “outraged”. So? Brazil is an enemy State. It supports argieland in its imperialist colonialist ambitions. Of course, none of these piddle-arse latam states will ever succeed in their aspirations. But it is necessary for an eye to be kept on them. Just so that we can stop them making a criminally, foolish mistake. Nothing so efficacious as a quiet word on the level of “We know what you're up to. Here are the details. And, by the way, here are the details of our planned ”exercise“ to reinforce our base”.
'Brazil is an enemy state ... a piddle-arsed LatAm state ...'
Oct 10th, 2013 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Conqueror, Brasil is neither of these things - as you well know.
Brasil's president is rightly outraged at the exceedance of the norms of acceptable international behaviour.
Should Brasil set up a separate internet structure? Of course not. But should new constraints be placed on the spying services? Of course.
The wickednesses are not those of Brasil (though corruptions, etc may be exposed by these spyings); no, the wickednesses are those of the big technological players illegally exposed by Snowden.
These wickednesses are so totally illegal that it beggars belief, and they go way beyond the classic libraries of spy fiction.
@ 3 Comedian
Oct 10th, 2013 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0I knew that Mr. Bean is releasing another movie. That's true?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGEHj3MjD8
Well, at least she has concerns, the US and the UK invade, steal and kill without concerns.
Oct 10th, 2013 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh well, deluded is as deluded does.
Oct 10th, 2013 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do wish ALL contries who think they can rule the internet would get on and try it.
Then we will SEE who rules the internet: it's US, the users, not some Brazilian who couldn't control her own terrorist “cell”, some hopes with the internet.
Chris
Oct 10th, 2013 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you telling people that you, as a user, control the internet all while calling them delusional?
Get back here, old man!
@ 7 or perhaps it's because you're country is part of that ECHELON criminal blood sucking spying network?
Oct 10th, 2013 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well I doubt Brazil will get far with this proposal. I mean they can't even tell the difference between the National Security Agency, and the National Aeronautical Space Administration, so they've got no chance of actually catching any spies.
Oct 10th, 2013 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the internet. Here is a classic example of someone trying to curb everyone's freedom, and the free people of the world won't stand for it.
Try bringing it in in Brazil, Dilma, and see the free people of Brazil object to your spying ideas and government control over their daily lives.
8 Stevie
Oct 11th, 2013 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Read it again please!
I clearly stated it's US (not ME). Internet users number in billions and will do what they want, not what the Brazilian mafia want.
Got it now?
Oh dear.
So, the ones to control the internet are its many billion users, like you and me...
Oct 11th, 2013 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0...
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Chris, controlling your homepage might make you feel digitally omnipotent, but believe me, old man, your powers are quite limited in that area..
12 Stevie
Oct 11th, 2013 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember the fridge, that you couldn't get your head around? You are doing it again.
Ever heard of a Private Network? It's NOT a virtual private network.
Plus I am talking about people making choices as to what sites they use, what banks they bank at, etc.
Got it now?
Oh dear.
Yes Chris, I think I get it now...
Oct 11th, 2013 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahaha!
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