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Assange's Warning 'Urgent' for Developing World (La Jornada, Mexico)

"It is necessary and urgent to develop and operate independent access to the Worldwide Web in order to break U.S. dominance in this area. It's not for nothing that the group of emerging economies known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) advocate the creation of an alternative Internet structure, known as CABLEBRICS, consisting of a system of fiber optic cables 20,000 miles long, which would exclude major centers of U.S. and European telecommunications."

EDITORIAL

Translated By Florizul Acosta Perez

November 30, 2013

Mexico – La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: Last week he told the Third Conference on Audio Visual Communication at Mar del Plata, Argentina, that the Internet has been 'militarily occupied' by the U.S. and its allies, and that sovereignty for developing states demands an end to U.S. Internet dominance.

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In the context of the scandal over revelations of cyber-espionage by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said on Nov. 23 that the Internet has been militarily occupied by the United States and its Anglo-Saxon allies, with the purpose of dominating societies and denying their freedom and national sovereignty.

Assange's comments are significant, as they were made the same day that Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad issued a report on a document released by Mr. Snowden that shows the NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malware designed to steal confidential information. This is not an isolated case: it should be recalled that in August, The Washington Post revealed that the NSA had installed about 20,000 such implants in 2008, and has carried out similar cyber operations since 1998. One month later, telecommunications provider Belgacom discovered that for several years, British intelligence had installed malicious software on their networks to collect phone and Internet data from their customers.

When one considers that government and private computing platforms in the U.S. and Europe are infested with mechanisms of espionage as shown by documents obtained by WikiLeaks, Assange’s statements are not only credible, they are urgent. without a doubt, the virtual occupation of the Internet by the United States and its allies seriously compromises the confidentiality of government, institutional, corporate and private data from countries around the world, making them particularly vulnerable to the espionage activities of the government and computing giants of our neighboring country.

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In this context, it is necessary and urgent to develop and operate independent access to the worldwide Web in order to break U.S. dominance in this area. It's not for nothing that the group of emerging economies known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) advocate the creation of an alternative Internet structure, known as CABLEBRICS, consisting of a system of fiber optic cables 20,000 miles long, which would exclude major centers of U.S. and European telecommunications. This is seen as a threat to this form of Western hegemony.

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Right now, the struggle for the self-determination of nations leads inexorably through the terrain of communications and information, which have been co-opted by the global centers of political and economic power. It is desirable that Latin American countries, including ours, follow the BRICS' example and explore the creation of our own Internet access platforms as alternatives to those in the U.S., as a way forward in the consolidation of the sovereignty of our respective nations.

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Posted By Worldmeets.US Nov. 30, 2013, 05:53pm