On 29/10/17 01:31, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Good point. My personal bugaboo is the resurgence of walled > gardens. A platform that connected us is now dividing us. Which > suggests: NO WALLED GARDENS. Walled gardens are icky. A futile attempt to design Internet protocols so as to make walled gardens impossible would be worse. I do think Keith makes a good point below though, but am not sure if a change to a vision statement would help there. (Mind you, I'm generally allergic to vision and mission statements, so I'm not really the right person to talk to about this;-) I also like the idea of promoting privacy and freedom of expression to be first class elements of what we're doing. Somewhat along the lines of Keith's "empowerment" idea, I'd suggest also adding something to the effect that we/ISOC want the outcome to include always providing individual people with a meaningful level of control over their own experience of the Internet. I won't attempt wordsmithing of the above. Cheers, S. > -------- Original message --------From: > Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 10/28/17 7:54 PM > (GMT-05:00) To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Proposal to revise ISOC's > mission statement On 10/26/2017 04:18 AM, Gonzalo Camarillo wrote: > >>    The Internet is for everyone. > > These words mean something very different to me now than they did in > the late 1990s. In the late 1990s, I saw the Internet as entirely a > force for good - giving people access to information, the ability to > freely communicate among one another, making governments and > businesses more transparent, helping to build a global community. > > Twenty years later, the reality is somewhat different.  The > Internet has become a way for the Big Brothers of the world to > conduct mass surveillance, a way to study people's interactions in > minute detail, to compile personal information about people and to > exploit that information for profit. This is not an accident; it is > the business model of several powerful companies and the hope behind > several product lines. Even the "Internet of Things" is mostly > about spying on people. > > The Internet isn't for everyone anymore, at least not in the same > sense.  It's for spying on everyone for the benefit of the few. > It's also for spreading conspiracy and for dividing people > politically, in order to give those in power more control. > > So basically I think ISOC, if it really wants to continue to pursue > its original goals and ideals, needs to find a new vision. I > suggest a simple change: > > The Internet is for *empowering* everyone. > > To this end, ISOC needs to explicitly make privacy, freedom of > expression, and authenticity of information part of its mission. > > Keith >
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