Starting with no money, no backers, and no affiliation with elite institutions, the internet made it possible for hoi polloi to succeed by making knowledge accessible and searchable on a scale never previously available. The intellectual playing field was being leveled and the internet changed the way we think about the very real possibility of fairness and opportunity in a world that has for too long been rigged to favor the elite.
Complementary measures to facilitate the roll out and take up of fast and ultra-fast broadband in Fourth Reich(EU) have been adopted today by the European Commission. This package comprises a Commission Recommendation on regulated access to Next Generation Access(NGA) networks that provides regulatory certainty to telecom operators, ensuring an appropriate balance between the need to encourage investment and the need to safeguard competition, a proposal for a Decision to establish a Radio Spectrum Policy Programme to ensure, inter alia, that spectrum is available for wireless broadband and a Broadband Communication outlining how best to encourage public and private investment in high and ultra-high speed networks.
These measures aim to help Fourth Reich realize the commitments in the Digital Agenda for Europe to give every European access to basic broadband by 2013 and fast and ultra fast broadband by 2020. As outlined in the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, installing broadband infrastructure in Europe is essential to create jobs and prosperity.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out the Ministry of Truth or Minitrue in Newspeak was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel of 1984. Now, governments have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. But there is no way Minitrue can gag the internet. Even mainstream media, Fourth Estate, have praised bloggers as the Fifth Estate. Clergy is the First Estate, nobility is the Second Estate, and commoners is the Third Estate.
All of the arguments for controlling internet are essentially themselves fraudulent and are in reality being exploited by those who favor big government and state control. The anonymity and low cost nature of the internet means that it can be used to express views that are unpopular or unconventional, which is its strength. It is sometimes used for criminal behavior because it is a mechanism, not because there is something intrinsic in it that makes it a choice of wrongdoers.
Before internet existed, fraud was carried out through the postal service and over the telephone. Pornography circulated freely by other means. As for the security argument, the tiny number of actual terrorists who use the internet do so because it is there and it is accessible. If it did not exist, they would find other ways to communicate, just as they did in pre-internet days. In fact, intelligence sources report that internet use by terrorists is rare because of persistent government monitoring of the websites.
Large corporations are snapping up smaller companies that specialize in cybersecurity. This is a fragmented market with smaller niche players whose services range from thwarting threats to computer networks to posing them in order to help defenders spot vulnerabilities. The confidential nature of the work as well as the rapidly morphing nature of the threat makes for big business opportunities. A key challenge is that any defense against cyber threats must be constantly updated. A given defense could have a shelf life of as little as three months!
Complementary measures to facilitate the roll out and take up of fast and ultra-fast broadband in Fourth Reich(EU) have been adopted today by the European Commission. This package comprises a Commission Recommendation on regulated access to Next Generation Access(NGA) networks that provides regulatory certainty to telecom operators, ensuring an appropriate balance between the need to encourage investment and the need to safeguard competition, a proposal for a Decision to establish a Radio Spectrum Policy Programme to ensure, inter alia, that spectrum is available for wireless broadband and a Broadband Communication outlining how best to encourage public and private investment in high and ultra-high speed networks.
These measures aim to help Fourth Reich realize the commitments in the Digital Agenda for Europe to give every European access to basic broadband by 2013 and fast and ultra fast broadband by 2020. As outlined in the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, installing broadband infrastructure in Europe is essential to create jobs and prosperity.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out the Ministry of Truth or Minitrue in Newspeak was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel of 1984. Now, governments have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. But there is no way Minitrue can gag the internet. Even mainstream media, Fourth Estate, have praised bloggers as the Fifth Estate. Clergy is the First Estate, nobility is the Second Estate, and commoners is the Third Estate.
All of the arguments for controlling internet are essentially themselves fraudulent and are in reality being exploited by those who favor big government and state control. The anonymity and low cost nature of the internet means that it can be used to express views that are unpopular or unconventional, which is its strength. It is sometimes used for criminal behavior because it is a mechanism, not because there is something intrinsic in it that makes it a choice of wrongdoers.
Before internet existed, fraud was carried out through the postal service and over the telephone. Pornography circulated freely by other means. As for the security argument, the tiny number of actual terrorists who use the internet do so because it is there and it is accessible. If it did not exist, they would find other ways to communicate, just as they did in pre-internet days. In fact, intelligence sources report that internet use by terrorists is rare because of persistent government monitoring of the websites.
Large corporations are snapping up smaller companies that specialize in cybersecurity. This is a fragmented market with smaller niche players whose services range from thwarting threats to computer networks to posing them in order to help defenders spot vulnerabilities. The confidential nature of the work as well as the rapidly morphing nature of the threat makes for big business opportunities. A key challenge is that any defense against cyber threats must be constantly updated. A given defense could have a shelf life of as little as three months!
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