E' a suo modo affascinante (non nel senso positivo della parola) constatare come certe tattiche retoriche siano usate quasi verbatim sia in Italia (per, per esempio, il provvedimento AgCom) sia negli USA. juan carlos -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] Well known Internet technologist [NOT!] and MPAA head Dodd slams Google Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:29:43 -0800 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org Well known Internet technologist [NOT!] and MPAA head Dodd slams Google http://j.mp/rsRIMQ (Variety) Vint Cerf, recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet and Google's chief Internet evangelist, warned of "likely harm" to the Internet itself from the effort. The worry is that by trying to create a wall between foreign rogue sites and users in the U.S., efforts to block domain names will interfere with the Internet's core architecture. But Dodd calls such alarms "exaggerated hyperbole." - - - As far as I'm concerned, Dodd's own hyperbole borders on fascism. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com