Why The Future Is Here In The South, Another Example

[scotttswan]

OK, Frenchie and Ejcot, have fun with fugazzeta: http://www.planetajo...il - 25-04-2014

Fugazzeta isn't a pizza, it lacks tomato sauce!

Its not terrible though.

 

[Yogur griego]

Fugazzeta isn't a pizza, it lacks tomato sauce!

Its not terrible though.

Something is not right here: Joe is taking awfully long to respond to this thread.

 

[pauper]

Something is not right here: Joe is taking awfully long to respond to this thread.

He's hiking in the mountains outside Rosario and forgot to take any of his Apple devices with him.

 

[ghost]

Seldom does fate, (or random chance), offer us such a clear contrast on two successive days.

In the USA, the Federal Communications Commission has just issued new rules that utterly destroy net neutrality, and deliver the Web into the hands of the rich and powerful, through the corporations they control.

While in Brazil, the Senate has passed an Internet Constitution, what amounts to an Internet Bill of Rights, clearly setting forth the rights, duties, and responsibilities of both users and providers. And the NETMundial summit, which wound up yesterday, may well have set forth the future of the Internet.

No, I'm not blind to Brazil's problems, but the trends are in opposite directions. The South is striving to improve, granted only on the principle of "two steps forward, one step back", but still trending onward and upward. While the North seems locked into a downward spiral of war, oppression, tyranny, and death.

I understand your fears. But there are too many in the states that see net control/censorship as a taboo. I doubt that these fears will realize. However there may be some speed limit charges for bandwidth hogs and content providers that want to profit from the built out infrastructure. Vigilance is always in the hands of the consumer.

 

[gusgutier]

He's hiking in the mountains outside Rosario and forgot to take any of his Apple devices with him.

Or sailing at Cordoba´s sea

 

[internationalguy]

He's hiking in the mountains outside Rosario and forgot to take any of his Apple devices with him.

He did? Is he going to make it through the weekend? He might be having strong withdrawal symptoms.

 

[pauper]

Or sailing at Cordoba´s sea

Don't be silly, everyone knows the sea in Córdoba is frozen over this time of year.

 

[Yogur griego]

Joe is setting up his own maple syrup/dr pepper/peanut butter plant, hidden in the mysterious forests of the Córdoba region. Too busy to talk about fugazzeta, entonces.

 

[steveinbsas]

Steve, except this is not just about the USA, as was your ongoing polemic against Obamacare, which had virtually no relevance to Argentina.

This is about South America, and vitally important to Argentina. This is about a net conference in Argentina's biggest neighbour.

Your opening post drew the line between North and South. Were you referring to hemispheres or Americas?

There was no mention of Argentina.

I watched the video (which sounds exactly like something one of Ayn's fans would say and all would cheer) but there was no mention of Argentina in it.

Argentine was not mentioned in the article you linked to, either.

Argentina is, however, mentioned in this one:

http://panampost.com...nto-crosshairs/

I found it with a goolge seach of three words: "Agentina, Net, Neutrality."

And it brings up one very interesting point:

"The Argentina Internet Policy Commission (CAPI), according to resolution No. 13 in the Official Gazette, will operate under the Secretariat of Communications and be self-regulated."

The words "self regulated" sound like a contradiction in terms in Argentina. Vamos a ver.

PS: While my "ongoing polemic" about Obamacare has little to do with Argentine people, it might actually have some degree of relevance to expats in Argentina who may return to the USA in the next few years and not be able find the kind of affordable and reasonably priced health care that they have come to expect in Argentina.

 

[Redpossum]

I watched the video (which sounds exactly like something one of Ayn's fans would say and all would cheer) but there was no mention of Argentina.

Argentine was not mentioned in the article you linked to, either.

Argentina was, however, mentioned in this one:

http://panampost.com...nto-crosshairs/

I found it with a goolge seach of three words: "Agentina, Net, Neutrality."

And it brings up one very interesting point:

"The Argentina Internet Policy Commission (CAPI), according to resolution No. 13 in the Official Gazette, will operate under the Secretariat of Communications and be self-regulated."

The words "self regulated" sound like a contradiction in terms in Argentina. Vamos a ver.

PS: While my "ongoing polemic" about Obamacare has little to do with Argentine people, it might actually have some degree of relevance to expats in Argentina who may return to the USA in the next few years and not be able find the kind of affordable and reasonably priced health care that they have come to expect in Argentina.

Hey, at least you're on-topic, that's good enough for me.

That's an interesting link you provided, thank you. I noted that it also said -

The Argentina Internet Policy Commission (CAPI), according to resolution No. 13 in the Official Gazette, will operate under the Secretariat of Communications and be self-regulated. The CAPI will then provide a formal regulatory plan within the new cyber paradigm launched by Brazil through its approval of the Internet Civil Framework, nicknamed the “Constitution of the Internet.”

Which ties it all together neatly, thank you very much. It's good to see that Argentina is involved, though I could not find any evidence of whether or not an Argentine delegation actually attended the conference. It would have been painfully stupid not to, but nationalism can sometimes move people in directions that are not in their self-interest.

**edit** Doh, I missed it, further down the page, Norberto Berner was there!