Cina, Russia e India si adoperano per prendere il controllo delle comunicazioni Internet, sottraendolo agli Stati Uniti... e ai propri cittadini. Offre qualche speranza la Francia in cui qualcuno sembra iniziare a capire (in ritardo e senza fretta) cosa sta succedendo (e non è un caso che Bloomberg metta il Senato francese sullo stesso piano di Putin e Xi Jinping... ;-) Inutile dire che la sicurezza è una scusa: non ci sarà mai sicurezza informatica senza conoscenza informatica diffusa capillarmente, come dimostrano i continui "incidenti" che raggiungono ormai quotidianamente gli onori delle cronache (la consueta punta dell'iceberg). Se vogliamo salvare Internet (e il sogno di Pace che rappresenta) non dobbiamo spezzarla ma distribuirla in modo che non sia controllabile da nessuno. Se solo l'Unione Europea... :-x D'altronde non è un caso se non ci prendono proprio sul serio. Noi siamo già una colonia. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/how-cybersovereignty-spli... Early on, the narrative around the internet was it should be unfettered and borderless, a global commons. That didn’t last. China’s President Xi Jinping has led the way in asserting what’s become known as cybersovereignty -- a nation’s right to control the digital realm. Other authoritarian regimes such as Russia’s and Vietnam’s, but also governments in places such as India and France, are following suit. With America’s more hands-off approach under fire for enabling election meddling, fake news and hate speech, China is trumpeting its method of controlling the internet to serve state interests. [...] The French National Assembly formed a task force in April 2018 to examine ways to protect against not only cyberattacks but growing dependency on foreign technology companies, after a French Senate report warned France and the European Union were at risk of becoming “digital colonies.” [...] Cybersovereignty enables both censorship -- the suppression of information for political or other purposes -- and cybersecurity, the protection of things like transportation systems, electrical grids and personal information. Xi, who chairs China’s top cyber-administrative regulator, has repeatedly underscored the importance of building an independent cyberspace that foreign powers can’t disrupt, as the foundation for China’s national security. President Vladimir Putin described Russia’s new legislation as a response to the threat of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. [...] Ex-Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has predicted that within a decade, the internet will split in two, with one led by the U.S. and the other by China. A big test will be the global expansion of Chinese tech titans such as Tencent and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which developed and flourished within China’s authoritarian model.