Bitcoin Forum

In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet “needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly.” This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for “a technology founded on freedom.”

Speaking on behalf of the Obama administration, Kerry said that Internet policy is “a key component of our foreign policy.”

Kerry made his remarks in the context of talking about how international law is applicable to the Internet. “As I’ve mentioned, the basic rules of international law apply in cyberspace. Acts of aggression are not permissible. And countries that are hurt by an attack have a right to respond in ways that are appropriate, proportional, and that minimize harm to innocent parties. We also support a set of additional principles that, if observed, can contribute substantially to conflict prevention and stability in time of peace. We view these as universal concepts that should be appealing to all responsible states, and they are already gaining traction,” said Kerry.

“First, no country should conduct or knowingly support online activity that intentionally damages or impedes the use of another country’s critical infrastructure. Second, no country should seek either to prevent emergency teams from responding to a cybersecurity incident, or allow its own teams to cause harm. Third, no country should conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, or other confidential business information for commercial gain. Fourth, every country should mitigate malicious cyber activity emanating from its soil, and they should do so in a transparent, accountable and cooperative way. And fifth, every country should do what it can to help states that are victimized by a cyberattack.


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-internet-needs-rules-be-able-flourish-and-work-properly_949526.html





---------------------------------------------------------------------
Bitcoin = freedom of speech = internet = needs to be controlled...

LOL
Are they going to forbid the information itself? Well internet is beeing controlled by ICANN. It's centralized either you like it or not. But you can't forbid information. It will always find it's way to a people.

"The Netsukuku Wired

Netsukuku aims to be a mesh network or a peer to peer protocol that generates and sustains itself autonomously. It is designed to handle an unlimited number of nodes with minimal CPU and memory resources. Thanks to this feature it can be easily used to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and uncontrolled network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls."

http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/

Netsukuku is dead. Look for CJDNS. Hyperboria is the next internet =)))
All goverment's efforts to control internet and information will only force independent internet to rise. ))

It is not dead. It works

Download and install netsukuku on a ubuntu machine
https://lab.dyne.org/Netsukuku_Dev/beta/ubuntu

CJDNS is not anonymous.

The greatest irony in all this is that US is responsible for acts of spying on allied countries like Germany, UK, French and others. Now they have balls to claim that no one should be allowed to steal secrets form another? And what about PRISM program? I can bet that US agencies are using internet to spy not only on other countries but also on US citizens as well. Bunch of hypocrites.

All of his commentary is just window dressing for the real culprit they are worried about is the free flow of information that more people are accessing and seeing what a fraud the system has become. Plus, it allows for organizing among strangers locally or across the nation. All govts have self preservation as item number 1.

Sad thing is, if the Republicans were in power they would be saying the exact same thing. It's similar to how our beloved conservative leader (in the UK) wants to crack down on free speech, they're all following the same agenda.


Well been as NSA (and GCHQ) do this on a daily basis, I don't know how Kerry can say that with a straight face.