Do you know the extent to which tech companies and lobby groups propagated dangerous ideas that trade agreements be used to govern our public Internet before this AI don. Love tossing ideas to encourage consistent and unequivocal policies to promote Internet free from gov control. How do secretly negotiated rules on data or AI square with any Parliament’s edict that no centralized international institution should assert regulatory authority over governance or internet traffic flows? Where are AI Unicorns, App Owners and Google’s campaigns over the fact that engineers, companies, and people that build and use Networks have no vote on concepts like net neutrality or data privacy?

The answer is that lobbyists and political power brokers feel comfortable that they have much of negotiations under their control – bribing, hallucinating or whatever it takes! As big-tech rants it, leaders of truly transparent democracies are in best position to define rules of the road necessary to protect vital governmental, environmental and societal interests.

Paternalistic observation, coming from companies that facilitated South African apartheid regime while Western governments looked on, offered little comfort. When it comes to crafting rules that protect users / citizens, the current regimes (mostly far-right) are not so trustworthy that we should entrust them with setting policies for we the people, without transparency, oversight and other democratic checks and balances.

Nor do states seem interested in loosening their control over AI systems as other nations. Amongst the countries excluded from such club of cronies are Brazil which crafted its Marco Civil da Internet in an open, multi-stakeholder process, Similarly the Philippines crowd sourced the drafting of a Magna Carta for AI / Internet that included some powerful principles. These are the kinds of processes, and the kinds of docs resulting from them, that at least nod to the openness we need for legitimate debates about future of our digital lives.

Notably developing countries, rather than G7 ministries be at forefront of innovating such processes. These initiatives at least point way towards alternatives to trade negotiations in answer to pressures for coordination of the development of rules and policies. Else as seen in some recent revolts and elections, though trolled as elitist or burden on society, even university professors will take to the streets along students / farmers / oppositions, standing as physical barrier between them, the political mafia and anarchic police states. Showing they are truly part of our societies, with all its heart and soul, and ready to do anything to defend common values, morals ​​and liberty.

Astrophysicist studying galaxy, electrical engineer designing robots, organic chemist working on COVID-19 drugs, education researcher, sociologist, many political scientists, economists, physicians, and medical researchers. Mock brainiest parliament?

Closed-door, secretive intergovernmental trade negotiations, are no way to craft rules, no matter how well-intended the trade negotiators and their privileged business advisors, lobbyists or white collar cronies may be. There are simply too many valid interests, perspectives and critiques that are unavailable to them in such opaque and captured processes, inevitably resulting in flawed and one-sided narratives, policies and laws. Far from being the kind of open governance innovation that our digital rights deserve. We encourage tech users and providers to refuse secretive systems to control online masses wherever it happens.

Remember, big tech are way below 1% of what is real Internet! To contain and inject mediocrity, paid media celebs and AI agents are just self-promoting niche ponds and hyping minor mirages compared to oceans of real info and people out in our open universe, which are also being trimmed intentionally by the same groups of vested cronies. It seems that political mafia are totally prostrate to corporate / foreign powers (read various kings and cronies). Will the real people please stand up? This has nothing to do with tech, actually! Save The Internet

Ref. Electronic Frontier Foundation and Science.org