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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I support Maye’s proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Emmanuel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> africann-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net] <b>De la part de</b> Maye diop<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 3 janvier 2012 22:43<br><b>À :</b> africann@afrinic.net; n@gmail.com<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Will 2012 be the year the Internet dies?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>We need to state our position about this real danger.<br>Best regards<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Le 3 janv. 2012 20:03, "Anne-Rachel Inné" <<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/bert-knabe/2012-01-02/will-2012-be-year-internet-dies#.TwHYi4HNmCc" target="_blank">http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/bert-knabe/2012-01-02/will-2012-be-year-internet-dies#.TwHYi4HNmCc</a><br><br>Will 2012 be the year the Internet dies?<br>Submitted by Bert Knabe on January 2, 2012 - 6:00am<br><br>This month two very dangerous bills will continue to be pushed in the<br>House and Senate. The "Stop Online Privacy Act" (SOPA) and the<br>"Protect IP Act" (PIPA) are among the most anti-Constitutional bills<br>considered in the last decade. If passed they will make it possible<br>shut down websites in the U.S. without warning and limited right to<br>appeal. It's only because of the "National Defense Authorization Act"<br>President Obama signed into law Saturday that they aren't the worst of<br>2011. More on the NDAA next time.<br><br>Eighty three of the scientists and engineers who created and developed<br>the internet have signed an open letter to Congress expressing their<br>concerns. Their concerns aren't minor. The technical concerns should<br>be enough to lay the bills to rest:<br><br> If enacted, either of these bills will create an environment of<br>tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and<br>seriously harm the credibility of the United States in its role as a<br>steward of key Internet infrastructure. Regardless of recent<br>amendments to SOPA, both bills will risk fragmenting the Internet's<br>global domain name system (DNS) and have other capricious technical<br>consequences. In exchange for this, such legislation would engender<br>censorship that will simultaneously be circumvented by deliberate<br>infringers while hampering innocent parties' right and ability to<br>communicate and express themselves online.<br><br>Unlike laws against yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, these bills<br>don't really do anything to protect anything, but do quite a bit to<br>damage everything. When you start looking at possible political and<br>economic consequences, it's even worse:<br><br> The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free<br>and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free<br>and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the<br>political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry.<br>To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has<br>been fairly uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy<br>arbiter and a neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to<br>use its central position in the network for censorship that advances<br>its political and economic agenda, the consequences will be<br>far-reaching and destructive.<br><br>In the end, these bills are perfect censorship tools. Having a site<br>removed from the DNS listings is insanely easy. That's the idea. Make<br>it easier for the groups owning intellecutal property to take down<br>sites that might be stealing it - or helping others steal it. It's so<br>easy you don't even have to give any evidence, just the accusation is<br>enough to get a site taken down.<br><br>The companies that would be hurt most by these bills are well aware of<br>the potential damage. An article by Declan Mcullagh at CNET.com says<br>that some of the largest companies on the internet - Google, eBay,<br>Amazon and others - are contemplating an Internet blackout, possibly<br>for the January 23rd, the day before the Senate starts debate on PIPA.<br>Imagine what would happen if for a day you couldn't access Facebook,<br>Twitter, or any other major social network. You couldn't go to eBay or<br>Amazon to buy or sell stuff. Youtube and other video sites are down.<br>And all of them have a placeholder telling you that this is exactly<br>what could happen if the Congress passes an Internet censorship bill<br>similar to PIPA and SOPA. Would you sit up, pay atten, and contact<br>your representatives? You should, because that is exactly what could<br>happen.<br><br>SOPA and PIPA are dangerous. They don't do anything for the problem<br>they are allegedly trying to solve and could do a whole lot of damage.<br>A good place to learn more is the EFF website. The article 2011 in<br>Review: Fighting the Internet Blacklist Bills is a good place to<br>start. Then contact your congressmen. For your senators go to the U.S.<br>Senate website. For your Representative go the the U.S. House website.<br>Tell them to fight SOPA (House) and PIPA (Senate).<br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>