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Where can I post comments to Hillary Clinton’s remarks on Internet Freedom?

These issues are very fascinating. And I would like to thank Google for providing a platform such as Sidewiki where I am posting this comment, where anyone can comment on any website even if the webmaster has disabled user comments.

I have not yet seen Hillary Clinton’s remarks and Q&A but I would like to comment on the issues just briefly:

- US Technology companies control a very large share of the worldwide technology industry. Could anyone provide % of actual capital in tech industry controlled by few US corporations?

- Sure I don’t like it at all that the Chinese government imprisons that many people and has probably one of the worse death penalty policies in the world. But do consider that for example the USA also does have huge amounts of prisoners, does also have the death penalty and does also listen in on all Internet conversations, even it is pretty well known that the US government has backdoors everywhere on the web. Does anyone know how much information Google provides to the US government and to other European governments about Google users?

- I would very much like that China improve their policies sooner rather than later. It would be very impressive if Google can the Obama administration can convince the Chinese Government that they all jointly sign a new Internet Freedom treaty that would:

1. Stop the useless Chinese firewall, filtering search results on tiananmen/falung gong just does not make any sense. Comon, be a bit progressive on this guys. It is actually ridiculous to block that.

2. Filtering adult material to hide it from Children is absolutely a good and worthy project which I think all countries should collaborate on. And Google DNS and Safe search type technologies should be used by all ISPs by default. Though very important fact should be it should be easy for any registered adult to unlock their connection and get unfiltered access. The filter should only be a default on all main DNS to protect children from adult contents. Very important not to confuse adult filtering with censorship.

3. Piracy should be legalized globally. Sure artists and content creators must be compensated appropriately. There should be new international author rights regulation that should compensate content creators directly without anymore of the same intermediaries of old media. For example, musicians, film makers, journalists, writers, photographers should get paid and find funds directly from a central global license for all contents that everyone should pay towards. This can be done using clever online statistics of popularity of all contents, by creating a registry of content creators and their works, and by letting users opt-in to provide accurate statistics on their content consumption and use ratings to provide better recommendations and filters to find the best contents. Leaving copyright laws of the past dictate this future of Internet content distribution would just be wrong. China and the USA must agree on a solution that improves content, finances much better creation and gives all users free access to all of it.

4. Sure the US technology companies are doing a pretty good job building the Internet and making all kinds of technologies. But they may also be slowing progress in terms of not yet making technology available to the 5 billion poorest people in the world. A new agreement on Technology goals such as power consumption of devices, price of devices, free access to spectrum and broadband, those things need to be taken care of globally. For example, 700mhz TV spectrum needs to be used globally for free unlimited wireless broadband for all. $100 Laptops with 200 hour battery life need to be manufactured as soon as possible and to be made available everywhere in the world. Honestly, capitalistic corporations might not be able to profit when laptops are sold below $100 and when wireless broadband is free for all. But those are very important decisions that politicians need to agree upon.

If Google can reach all this I would thank them so much.

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Wow, I beat my record for the amount of videos that I filmed and have posted from a 4-day consumer electronics conference. I uploaded 72 videos to Youtube from CES 2010 in HD 1280×720 9mbit/s quality. And I still have at least 2 more videos that I can think of that I forgot to upload yet which I will get to upload during the next couple of days. 22 of those videos have so far reached audiences of more than 1000 viewers, which I think is lower than I would have hoped for. I did not have any time during my trip in the USA to try to promote my best videos for trying to get them embedded on the big technology news blogs. And also, the big technology news blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo had their own armies of 20+ bloggers each doing all the coverage that they needed. Engadget for example brags about having published 700 posts during CES (I didn’t count them), that wouldn’t leave much space for them to think about embedding any other small video-bloggers videos even if those might be better than their own ones. My new site http://ARMdevices.net is also only just launched right now before CES, I need to work on optimizing the features, especially the comments and social networking aspects of it.

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