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Miércoles 6 de agosto de 2008

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Después de los acontecimientos terribles del 11 de septiembre de 2001 no duró para un pedazo de la legislatura que se pasará en los E.E.U.U., llamados Acto del patriota. Ése es un sistema masivo de leyes aparentemente diseñados para ayudar en la lucha contra terrorismo, con el' efecto secundario inicialmente no hecho caso pero ahora extensamente reconocido' de debilitar libertades civiles y de desatender derechos humanos cuando es conveniente.

Este sistema exhaustivo de leyes fue aprobado apenas 20 días después de los ataques. Por supuesto, la ley no era justa creada en esos 20 días. En lugar, había sido escrito muchos años antes de ya y era sentada justa en los cajones que esperaban la época derecha de ser pasado. El tiempo de la derecha del `' aquí que es un estado del miedo y del pánico, que haría pasar de una ley tan polémica posible.

¿Qué esto tiene que hacer con nosotros y este Internet/blog y sitio relacionados computadora? Bien, como resulta, una ley similar es escrita ya y que espera para ser `caído en el Internet' en caso de un acontecimiento importante de la seguridad en ese espacio. Heche una ojeada este vídeo aquí, donde Lorenzo Lessig recuerda una conversación con Richard Clarke, el czar anterior del contador-terrorismo del gobierno de los E.E.U.U. El vídeo es largo, pero usted apenas tiene que mirar de 4:30 a 5:55 para eso.

Lessig había preguntado a Clarke si el Ministerio de Justicia tenía algo como el acto del patriota, un “acto del yo-Patriota” si usted, listo ser aplicado al Internet en caso de un “cyber-9/11.” Clarke respondió, “Por supuesto. Y Vint Cerf no tendrá gusto de él.”.

Usted puede también seguir la discusión sobre ella aquí en Slashdot.

Con el acto del patriota muchos consiguieron la impresión que algunos halcones del `' en el gobierno fueran probablemente absolutamente agradecidos para lo que sucedió en 9/11, de modo que él finalmente tuviera una ocasión de aprobar estos leyes. No estoy en teorías de la conspiración y no creo que el gobierno de los E.E.U.U. tenía cualquier mano en estos ataques. But one can’t help the impression that the event and the resulting fear and panic was certainly taken advantage of to get rid of some of those pesky human rights and civil liberties. Not even by all of the government, but just by some people within it.

I think in the case of the Internet the desire of the same type of people to limit its inherent freedom is even greater. These people don’t understand the Internet, or they fear that with the freedoms that it brings we are not as easily controllable anymore. And as we are removing ourselves from control and censorship, we are to be feared for our free will and opinions and ideas. Thus, a reason needs to be found to bring us back under control.

What forms will this take? Exhaustive monitoring of communication, gathering of data, possible bans on encryption, limits on what can and cannot be trasmitted over the Internet, etc. Basically, all the things the Patriot Acts did, just applied to the Internet. As we know now, the law for this is already written. Its proponents are just waiting for the right time.

On one hand, a security event in ‘cyper space’ is not going to as horrifying to most people as planes crashing into sky scrapers. But on the other hand, most people don’t understand the technology on the Internet anyway, they don’t understand that the Internet has the potential to change human civilisation in a profound and positive way. And because they don’t understand… well, there will be even less outrage about draconian laws being passed. In the end, it probably doesn’t take an event of the same horrific scale to get this new legislation through.

This is something to be very worried about, because we know that there is a Damocles Sword hanging over the Internet that we know and over the freedoms that it brings. And some people are just waiting to cut the string.

And before we get all high and mighty about this being a US issue only, and how we (in other countries) would never do something like this… well, get off your high horses! After 9/11 many governments in the western world had nothing better to do than to follow the examples set in the US and to willingly, even eagerly follow along with it. Because the very same people that passed those laws in the US also exist in other countries, of course. The same would happen again.

This is truly an issue affecting all of us.

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