Friday, October 21, 2011

US general doesn't want internet "regulated", he wants apps hosted on MIC connected servers (huh ?)


Last month, Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan submitted a resolution to the U.N. General Assembly calling for giving individual states the right to control the Internet. The resolution, submitted Sept. 14, calls for “an international code of conduct for information security.”

It requests “international deliberations within the United Nations framework on such an international code, with the aim of achieving the earliest possible consensus on international norms and rules guiding the behavior of states in the information space.”

China tightly controls the Internet through a cybersecurity police force estimated to be more than 10,000 people who monitor Internet users and websites.

Russia’s authoritarian government has taken steps in recent years to curb Internet freedoms. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan also are authoritarian regimes that seek to control Internet use.

Gen. Alexander said that, rather than seeking U.N. regulation, individual countries “first need to step up and say, ‘Look, how do we do this without regulating it?’ “

The four-star general suggested bolstering Internet security by using “cloud” technology, which uses remote computer servers for applications and data storage. Other new technologies that permit greater visibility of cyberthreats on networks also can be used to improve security, he said.

How is that not regulating it ?

You're saying the only apps would then be hosted by government connected and government funded companies like In-Q-Tel backed Google.

He gets demoted to half a "Real ID gold star" for his attempt to lull the public to sleep by telling them he doesn't want foreign countries or the UN regulating the internet, but that he wants the applications you use every day hosted on Military Industrial Complex connected cloud computers they will easily control and watch.

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