[pp.int.general] how do you feel about net neutrality?

[Ole Husgaard]

Richard M. Stallman skrev:
>     Of course they can. The state can't invade the privacy as easily
>     though - it tends to make voters and citizens very grumpy.
>
> That is true only when democracy is healthy.
> Democracy is very sick in the world today:
> The US, the UK and China are exploring the frontiers
> of surveillance, and they respond to opposition by distracting
> people with "terrorists".  (We are supposed to worry only
> about the terrorists that are not state-sponsored.)
>   
I agree. Democracy in the western world is having serious health
problems. In Europe it goes as far as to trying to regulate blogs (IMHO
trying to get rid of annoying opposition voices).

Amelia lives in a country (Sweden) where there is currently a public
uprising against state surveillance, and this is probably why she says
what she says.

> I think all systematic use of computers to record information about
> people or their actions or movements should be strictly limited,
> including surveillance by private organizations and surveillance by
> the state.  If police wish to do additional surveillance, they should
> have to get a court order permitting surveillance of specified individuals.
>   
This is exactly what we pirates are trying to say. If there is a
suspection of a crime, and the courts approve, we have no problem with
limited surveillance. But if we use computers to monitor all the people
all the time, we have a very serious problem with democracy. Democracy
will not be able to survive in an Orwellian society.

Best Regards,

Ole Husgaard.