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Over the past years, the idea of how to reconcile intellectual property rights and the Internet technologies and platforms has become a pivotal point of all Internet governance discussions. With the emergence of the Internet as a means of communication, creativity, innovation and ideas and with the increasing accessibility to information, traditional concepts of intellectual property appear increasingly antiquated and inapplicable in a space where information is democratized, people become increasingly more empowered to create, exchange and distribute content and innovation and creativity proliferate.

Il nous faut d’abord situer l’affaire Snowden dans son contexte américain d’origine : après le 11 septembre 2001, George W. Bush a instrumentalisé, jusqu’à le manipuler, le traumatisme bien compréhensible de la population. Il a empoisonné la culture politique de son pays en hystérisant la vie publique. De cette façon, il s’est procuré une majorité politique non pas seulement pour mener sa guerre contre l’Irak, une guerre contraire au droit international, mais aussi pour investir l’exécutif de pleins pouvoirs, contraires à la Constitution américaine.

The website at the centre of controversy following the death of a teenage girl who killed herself after apparently enduring months of online bullying has promised to introduce a “bullying/harassment” button and to investigate any reports of abusive behaviour within 24 hours.

Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, applauded Lavabit’s decision, pointing out that its self-destruction was made possible because it had no shareholders to answer to. “Could you imagine what would happen if Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page decided to shut down Facebook or Google rather than answer National Security Letters? They couldn’t. They would be fired,” Mr. Schneier wrote on his blog. “When the small companies can no longer operate, it’s another step in the consolidation of the surveillance society.”