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Internets Past

Morozov, Evgeny
http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/issues/3/technology-sometimes-falls-short/55160/internets-past

Publisher:  cca.qc.ca
Date Written:  01/12/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

This article discusses the Internet and the problems with prevailing public concern over Net neutrality. The author advocates for an alternate way forward, and a need to bring political economy back to the agenda by viewing corporations as political actors and the technology corporations as powerful commercial players with their own agendas.

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Canada was actually in the avant-garde of this fight. The Science Council published report after report advocating for something that back then was called technological sovereignty. The idea was that if you do not control your own technology industry, if you do not control your networks and your data banks, you will end up completely losing control of them and you'll end up depending on American firms. That vision and that critique was, of course, defeated, mainly by a lot of neo-liberal think tanks.

One of the reports from the Science Council, A Trans-Canada Computer Communications Network, which recommends building in Canada in 1971 something very much like what we today understand as the Internet, warns that "a 'laissez-faire' attitude will eventually result in the supply of most computing and information services via spur lines from US computer communications networks. Such an outcome is completely unacceptable in economic and social grounds."

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