Re: <nettime> "THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT DIGITAL PEACE" (Micosoft)

[Jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Geert Lovink wrote:

>    [1]https://digitalpeace.microsoft.com/

>    Dear nettimers, any comments on this? I find this pretty
>    stunning. OK, 100 years after World War I, that’s pretty
>    significant. "Make love, not war." Today there's conference in
>    Paris. I am an anti-militarist, I am not on the side of the
>    corporate-governmental (cyber)warfare promotors. But in general I
>    am not against non-violent conflict. Should we demand digital
>    conflict? Or digital ‘struggle'?

this reminds me of the "INFO PEACE" call by Way Holland, signed by CdC
and many others back end of nineties, at the time first SCADA targeted
cyber-attacks were emerging...

my advice, being my POV very close to yours naturally, is that we
demand that PEACE is not just the business of the military
industry. This is both a strategic and tactical call:

1. strategic because, srsly, boneheads cannot grasp the "Peace"
   concept even with their subsidized MAs and PhDs in political
   sciences.

2. tactical because there is an ENORMOUS amount of funding into the
   cyber-war buzzthing, more than all these blockchains and bitcoin
   stories annoying so many people here. and its all in the hands of
   the military-industrial complex, facing the issue in the same huge
   control rooms usied to make war.

ciao

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