Edit: to review here http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/une-con ... -7495632.h a few more days
A look back at the emergence of freedom defense movements on the Internet, born in reaction to the increasing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals. With Richard Stallman, the inventor of free software, Rick Falvinge, creator of the Swedish Pirate Party, and Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
A look back at the emergence of freedom defense movements on the Internet, born in reaction to the increasing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals. With Richard Stallman, the inventor of free software, Rick Falvinge, creator of the Swedish Pirate Party, and Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
Small analysis:
Documentary: the inevitable counter-history of the Net
The Point.fr - Posted on 14 / 05 / 2013 to 08: 07
Arte broadcasts a documentary Tuesday evening which dismantles popular beliefs about the creation of the Internet. Did you think it was the US military?
Arte programmed Tuesday evening A counter-history of the Internet, an exceptional documentary which traces the (real) history of the Internet. Far from praising the work of Darpa, the American military research agency which created the bases of the network, the two authors Jean-Marc Manach and Julien Goetz preferred to highlight the work of hundreds of hackers and hackers too often forgotten. . In the shadows, these adventurers of computer code have succeeded in transforming a bunch of not very sexy cables into the most formidable telecommunications tool in human history. "Most of the people who made the internet were hippies, they took LSD!" introduces John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the highly respected Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which campaigns for online freedoms. "At first, the system didn't try to control human beings," recalls Richard Stallman, free software guru and creator of GNU, a lifeblood of what is commonly known as Linux.
The list of people interviewed during the documentary makes you dizzy. John Perry Barlow and Richard Stallman rub shoulders with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks; Benjamin Bayart, pioneer of the French Net; Rickard Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish pirate party; Philip Zimmermann, inventor of the PGP encryption system; Valentin Lacambre, founder of Altern.org then Gandi; Bernard Benhamou, delegate for Internet uses at the Ministry of Research; the French hacker Bluetouf; Jean Guisnel, specialist journalist and collaborator of Le Point; or Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of the collective La quadrature du Net. Without forgetting the two authors, also references. Such a panel is a bit of the Grail of the cyber citizen, whether he is an absolute geek or a curious layman.
A tool "that no dictator would have dared to dream of"
The two authors point to the succession of hiccups in the history of the Net. Politicians "do not understand where this hubbub is coming from" that is the Internet, while "the press will never understand, out of laziness or fear", according to one of the speakers. To ask the right questions today, it is impossible to ignore the past attempts to regulate the Web, with measures taken against operators, then against hosts and finally against Internet users directly. A damning record which leads to the delicate problem of monitoring Internet users. The Internet is a tool "that no dictator would have dared to dream of", we are told. "Facebook is a modern version of the Stasi," says Julian Assange bluntly, who also denounces "cyberwar lobbies", which export digital weapons. The French company Amesys takes it for its rank, it which provided Muammar Kadhafi and the Libyan regime with the means to monitor cyber-dissidents and is the subject of an investigation for complicity in torture.
"Now that the general nervousness of September 11 has disappeared, we should ask ourselves if we need" all this arsenal of surveillance, wonders for his part Peter Hustinx, the European controller of personal data. “The worst thing that could happen, fears journalist David Dufresne, is to say that freedom has been won.
Far from all the clichés too often published under the benevolent gaze of the giants of the commercial Internet, A counter-history of the Internet resonates more like a hymn to freedom which would say to us "Look! They had created a free Internet for you , and this is what the powerful have done with it: be indignant! " Moreover, the conclusion is unequivocal: "This film is only one chapter, for you to write the continuation." But to write the sequel, you have to start by not missing its broadcast on Tuesday, May 14 at 22:35 p.m. or after, since it will be available for seven days on the online video service Arte + 7. The film is also backed by a participatory site.
A counter-history of the Internet, 88 minutes, an Arte and Premier lines co-production.
Source: http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-p ... 70_506.php
