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The web and riots African
The network as a multiplier of ideas and claims. And off the dictatorial regimes to silence the voice of protest. Tools that have to do and how to succeed. But opponents know how to circumvent the prohibitions of
Arturo Di Corinto
no one can deny that the Internet has played an important role in uprisings that led to the first flight of Ben Ali and Mubarak and (maybe) after Gaddafi. The network is in fact the first offer as a platform to denounce the corruption and popular anger and then as an instrument of organization and coordination of protest actions which multiplies the force.
But it all started from there. Although the protests had been prepared by the underground workings of bloggers and activists who have often paid with imprisonment and torture their denunciation of the regime, had to wait for the bread riots in order to understand the extent to which he had dug the discontent.
Protests have erupted in Tunisia after a street vendor set himself on fire in protest at the continuing harassment police. Started only after a general mobilization in which what happened in the streets was announced to the world via the Internet and then bounced from independent radio and TV to be taken up and fired up Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media, producing an effect of emulation in countries neighbors. When the systems they realized the power multiplying network, tried to block it, succeed, even if only briefly.
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The network will stop only if you go out. But how do you stop the network of networks where the myth of its origins about a communication device capable of withstanding a nuclear war? "The Net interprets censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. "There is truth in the words of John Gilmore, an expert cryptographer and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is in the operating logic of the network using a technology, packet switching, packet switching, that treats data as the cars of a train that arrived at the interchange off separate, take different paths and then are reunited at their destination. But if the network is nothing to bypass.
What happened to the January 28 in Egypt and then in Libya on February 19 was just that: the disconnection of the network from national and international circuits.
How did they do it? The answer is simple: the orders of the government. Internet traffic is carried in all countries by telecommunications carriers through its facilities: telephone lines, fiber optic, dedicated cables, radio links and wireless connections.
These companies are not only subject to the laws and authority of the countries in which they operate but they are often publicly owned and operating in a monopoly or near monopoly, so that if a government asked him to turn off the network, they do.
E 'occurred in Nepal in 2005 following the invitation of martial law and in Nepal in 2007 during the revolt of the saffron. The two countries have been completely isolated. All over the country just in time this complaint was repeated many times in Belarus Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Bahrain, Uganda, Yemen, Iran, in occasione di elezioni o manifestazioni politiche, e nella provincia cinese dello Xinjiang dopo una serie di conflitti etnici. Lo "spegnimento" della rete è però una misura talmente drastica che è impossibile da sostenere a lungo. I danni economici che produce sono disastrosi. Per questo i regimi africani avevano precedentemente agito bloccando siti, impedendo l'uso dei social network, rendendo impossibili le comunicazioni cellulari.
Come si blocca internet. Le tecniche di disconnessione applicate da regimi autoritari sono molteplici e includono il blocco degli indirizzi Ip, delle Url tramite un proxy server, la manomissioni del DNS (il sistema che ci fa trovare gli indirizzi sites), actions that inhibit access to specific web pages, entire domains (. org.. com,. ly, etc.), or specific addresses. Other techniques involve the installation of filters within the user's computer, keyword blocking, which prevents access to sites that have certain words in the name or impede the search engines view them on the basis of blacklists of hot words. That's what still happens in the network when you type the words China Tibet or Falun Gong. These techniques have been used all over the North African repression.
But this happens more often than we think. The OpenNet Initiative, a research project on censorship and control of the network involving universities of Toronto, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge - found that more than 36 countries at various levels filter political content, religious sites, pornography, gambling. And what is worse is that network users often do not know, because it does not engage in prohibited activities, and because the means of censorship more prosaic use techniques such denunciations, arrests and intimidation. All of these techniques, technological filters and actions of police, needless to say are known as Peking Consensus.
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Interesting article.
This applies, in respect of more or less been determined dictatorships tutto il mondo, con particolare focus, visti gli ultimi accadimenti, al Nord Africa ed al Medio Oriente...
Ma io mi domando.
Ciò, potrebbe accadere, anche nelle libertarie democrazie, in particolare, Occidentali ?
La mia risposta ?
In caso vi fosse necessità, a causa di eventi, di tale gravità, da compromettere ordine pubblico e sicurezza.
Senza alcuna remora...
Assolutamente...Si
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