To those without the technological expertise to fully understand what this all means, it could seem as a harmless measure by a government body to protect copyright materials. To anyone who knows what deep packet inspections, embedded digital watermarks, and trace-back mechanisms are, this is the most dangerous digital path the world has traveled since the internet was first conceived. The United Nations voted yesterday to support internet eavesdropping. Make absolutely no mistake about it - this is the very clear and unavoidable start of full-blown censorship. It is the beginning of the end of true internet privacy. It is a grab for power over the digital world that will be held by few, fully understood by next to nobody, and fueled by the needs of an emerging world government to give them control over the most powerful communication tool the world has ever known. If there are any doubts, simply look towards the actions of the country who initiated, proposed, and ultimately controlled the outcome of the recommendations: China. The UN's International Telecommunications Union approved it despite prophetic warnings from Germany:
"Germany holds the belief that the ITU-T should in principle not standardize any technical means that would increase the exercise of control over telecommunications content, could be used to empower any censorship of content, or could impede the free flow of information and ideas."
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