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    it is not easy talk about freedom, safety, neutrality, cybercrime,
    IP pirate, CISPA...with different interest... personal interest,
    national interest... business interest of the stakeholders ...<br>
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    anything that are not following somebody interest will be bad and
    sometimes considered as a crime ... cybercrime... <br>
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    "either you with me or against me....." <br>
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    this is the challenge for the future global dialog, not as easy
    during the period of cerf when he started the Internet everybody has
    one goal... ... regards, rudi rusdiah - apwkomitel (association of
    internet community - indonesia)<br>
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href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/228561-father-of-the-internet-warns-web-freedom-is-under-attack">http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/228561-father-of-the-internet-warns-web-freedom-is-under-attack</a></div>
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                            color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">‘Father
                            of the Internet’ warns Web freedom is under
                            attack</h1>
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                            ">By Andrew Feinberg </span>- <span
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                            113); ">05/21/12 11:07 AM ET</span></div>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">“Father of the Internet”
                            Vint Cerf on Monday warned that Internet
                            freedom is under threat from governments
                            around the world, including the United
                            States.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Cerf, a computer
                            scientist who was instrumental in the
                            Internet’s creation and is now employed by
                            Google as its "Internet evangelist," said
                            officials in the United States, United
                            Kingdom and Europe are using intellectual
                            property and cybersecurity issues "as an
                            excuse for constraining what we can and
                            can't do on the 'net.”</p>
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                          "Political structures … are often scared by
                          the possibility that the general public might
                          figure out that they don't want them in
                          power," he said.
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">He sounded the alarm
                            about the International Telecommunications
                            Union (ITU), arguing the group is poised to
                            assume the role of global Internet cop.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">“There is strong
                            indication that the Internet will enter the
                            picture [for the ITU]," Cerf said at
                            the Freedom to Connect conference.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Cerf said the ITU is
                            likely to try and lock in mandatory
                            intellectual property protections as a
                            backdoor for easy Web surveillance.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Even good-faith efforts
                            at Internet policymaking should be viewed
                            with skepticism, Cerf said, because
                            balancing freedom and security "isn't
                            something that government alone is going to
                            figure out."</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">He criticized the
                            Cybersecurity and Intelligence Protection
                            Act (CISPA), legislation passed by the House
                            to encourage companies to share information
                            about cyber threats with the government,
                            because it lacks "adequate constraints" on
                            how the information is used.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">But Cerf said he has the
                            "optimistic belief" that attempts by hostile
                            governments to restrict access will be
                            circumvented by resourceful engineers around
                            the world. </p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">"If someone stops me
                            from communicating, I'll find a way around
                            it," he said.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Cerf also urged
                            vigilante groups such as Anonymous to stop
                            using cyberattacks as a means of activism,
                            saying the hackings are counterproductive.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">"I don't think
                            lawlessness is our friend," he said.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Ultimately, there is a
                            legitimate role for law enforcement on the
                            Web, he said, adding that "it would be bad
                            for us as a community to say … that all the
                            good things outweigh the bad."</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">"That's not a credible
                            position to take," he said.</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">Cerf said activists and
                            regulators alike harm themselves by using
                            terms like "cybercrime" because they suggest
                            that "every bad thing that happens on the
                            Internet is a crime."</p>
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                            line-height: 1.5; ">"Some are just bugs,"
                            Cerf said, while suggesting a better goal
                            for policymakers should be "cybersafety."</p>
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