There are 3 regulations against the freedom of the internet that will happen the first quarter of 2018. The feudal lords are seeing crypto's as a serious threat and are getting ready to attack the industry with all of their gun power. China, Europe, USA. the 3 big players on this world chess game are moving at the same time with regulations to limit the interconnectivity of the internet Era. Against such attack what can we do? My answer at the end of this article.
China will begin blocking overseas providers of virtual private networks (VPN) used to circumvent its Great Firewall of government censorship at the end of March, official media reported.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) chief engineer Zhang Feng said VPN operators must be licensed by the government, and that unlicensed VPNs are the target of new rules which come into force on March 31.
"We want to regulate VPNs which unlawfully conduct cross-border operational activities,” Zhang told reporters on Tuesday.
“Any foreign companies that want to set up a cross-border operation for private use will need to set up a dedicated line for that purpose,” he said. “They will be able to lease such a line or network legally from the telecommunications import and export bureau.”
“This shouldn’t affect their normal operations much at all,” he said.
All apps and websites where users can upload and publish media are required to get copyright licenses for all content. These platforms are considered to “communicate to the public” all those user uploads, which means that the platforms would be directly responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users, as if it were the platform’s employees themselves uploading these works.
This is a bizarre addition to the Commission proposal, which would be impossible to implement in practice: Who exactly are the platforms supposed to get those license agreements from? While there may be collecting societies representing professional authors in a few areas such as music or film, which may be able to issue a license covering the works of many individual authors, other sectors do not have collecting societies at all.
Imagine a platform dedicated to hosting software, such as GitHub. There is no collecting society for software developers and nobody has so far seen the need to found one. So where will GitHub, which undoubtedly hosts and gives access to (copyright-protected) software uploaded by users, get their copyright license from? They can’t enter into license negotiations with every single software developer out there, just because somebody might someday upload their software to GitHub without permission. And without that impossible-to-get license, this law says they will be directly liable as soon as somebody does upload copyrighted works. That’s a sure-fire way to kill the platforms economy in Europe.
All platforms hosting and providing public access to “significant amounts” of user-uploaded content have to prevent copyrighted content that rightsholders have identified from being uploaded in the first place.
There are only two ways to do this: (a) hire an army of trained monkeys to look at every individual user upload and compare it manually to the rightsholder information or (b) install upload filters. The article that creates this obligation no longer mentions content recognition technologies explicitly, but they are still mentioned in other parts of the text, making it clear that filters are what Voss has in mind.
The cherry of the pie, our beloved net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality is scheduled to take effect on April 23, according to a copy of the order was published with the Federal Register on Thursday.
The Republican-led FCC voted along party lines in December to repeal Obama-era net neutrality protections, which were intended to keep the internet open and fair.
With the repeal, the FCC will do away with rules barring internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to online content. The FCC will also eliminate a rule barring providers from prioritizing their own content.
So what to do against such attacks, invest in Substratum, the only crypto with a value proposition that is actually trying to change the world for the better.
Substratum is an open-source network that allows anyone to allocate spare computing resources to make the internet a free and fair place for the entire world. Everyone who runs a Substratum Node gets paid via cryptocurrency each time they serve content. It's easy to participate, and it helps build a better, more open internet. Everyone who runs a node get access to the whole internet, as if you have a VPN or Tor software.
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