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North Korea's 3G network won't be censored for foreigners | The Verge - 1 views

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shared by manca_ on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • long maintained tight control over the flow of information within its borders
  • foreigners
  • unfettered mobile access to the web
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  • thanks to new policies implemented by supreme leader Kim Jong Un
  • that required foreigners to hand over their devices to authorities.
  • country has finally begun opening its doors to the outside world,
  • some 3G services, including text messaging, video calls, and subscriptions to state-run newspapers, but their mobile internet will remain tightly filtered, since North Koreans are still "governed by a separate set of telecommunication rules,"
  • two parallel internets — one for foreigners, one for citizens
  • visitors
  • about $300 for the cheapest 2GB data package.
Jernej Prodnik

The New Westphalian Web - By Katherine Maher | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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  • The New Westphalian Web The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing. BY KATHERINE MAHER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013
  • But 30 years ago, humanity gave birth to one of the most disruptive forces of our time. On Jan. 1, 1983, the implementation of TCP/IP -- a standard protocol to allow computers to exchange data over a network -- turned discrete clusters of research computers into a distributed global phenomenon. It was essentially the work of three men: two engineers to write the protocol, and one to carry out the plan. It was a birth so quiet no one even has a photo of the day; a recent post by one of TCP/IP's authors, Vint Cerf, was able to turn up only a commemorative pin.
    • Jernej Prodnik
      Jernej Prodnik on 25 Feb 13
       
      To je blizu tehnološkemu determinizmu, za razvoj interneta je šlo ogromno raziskovalnega denarja (iz in za "vojaško-industrijski kompleks").
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  • This Internet was wild and wooly, unknown and unregulated
    • Jernej Prodnik
      Jernej Prodnik on 25 Feb 13
       
      Huh.
  • Like all new frontiers, cyberspace's early settlers declared themselves independent -- most famously in 1996, in cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace." Barlow asserted a realm beyond borders or government, rejecting the systems we use to run the physical universe. "Governments of the Industrial World," he reproached, "You have no sovereignty where we gather.… Cyberspace does not lie within your borders."
  • With the flip of a switch, three engineers had undone the work of more than 100 princes and diplomats.
    • Jernej Prodnik
      Jernej Prodnik on 25 Feb 13
       
      !!!
Jernej Prodnik

The New Westphalian Web - By Katherine Maher | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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      Jernej Prodnik on 25 Feb 13
       
      And yet it was set-up by the governmental agencies.
  • In the popular consciousness, the Internet was simultaneously a place of possibility and danger. In 1993, Time magazine warned, "People who use … the Net may be in for a shock.… Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything." It was precisely this structural independence that transformed the Internet from a mere tool for information-sharing to the world's open forum.
  • The rise of self-publishing tools like Blogger transformed the "third space" of cyberspace into a modern speaker's corner, offering any motivated writer a platform for his or her political views. Initially, this online free expression was often marginalized or dismissed -- the term "blogosphere" was originally a joke. But bloggers kept plugging away. In liberal democracies their free expression was guaranteed, and in closed societies connectivity was often too limited to draw any real attention.
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  • . And the Internet -- this global resource, this wild space independent of states -- has made its mark on our neatly ordered world of nations.
Jan Sekavčnik

Twitter in Pyongyang: how North Korea got the mobile internet | Technology | guardian.c... - 1 views

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  • the secretive country begins allowing tourists to use the mobile internet
  • it was believed to be the first tweet sent from a mobile phone using the country's new 3G mobile data service.
  • photographer David Guttenfelder uploaded an image to Instagram of a tour guide at a mountain temple, geotagged to Pyongyang.
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  • In 2009, I did not offer up my iPhone as we went through customs
  • We'd leave our mobile phones at the airport but use locally purchased phones with SIM cards
  • broadband internet that may be installed on request at our hotel, which is for international visitors.
  • 3G mobile internet would be available within a week only for foreigners.
  • sim cards are €50,
  • calls to Switzerland are an inexplicably cheap €0.38 a minute
  • Our North Korean colleagues watched with surprise as we showed them we could surf the internet from our phones.
  • Not all North Koreans have local mobile phones
  • The world wide web remains strictly off limits for most North Koreans
  • But they cannot surf the "international" internet
  • North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system
  • Students say they can email one another, but they can't send emails outside the country.
  • Kim Jong Un has pushed science and technology as major policy directives, and we're starting to see more laptops in North Korean offices
  • Jan Sekavčnik on 02 Mar 13
     
    "Ads by Browse to Save Twitter in Pyongyang: how North Korea got the mobile internet"
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