(See from Larry Strickling of the U.S. Department of Commerce for a good description of the multi-stakeholder concept and for more detail on the IBSA proposal and its impact.)

Back in the United States, a similar proposal to destroy the future usability of the Internet has been proposed by some members of the House. , with the neat handle of the "E-PARASITE bill," seems to be a conscious effort to take the already awful PROTECT-IP bill and make it worse.

This bill removes any remaining pretense that its House supporters consider the interests of the people that voted for them at all relevant to their existence. It also removes any pretense of due process from the consideration of copyright on the Internet. I will not say that it is copyright extremism at its worst, because I expect they will endeavor to make it worse as it proceeds. As you might expect, the Internet technical community , but the bill's supporters dismiss information from people who know what they are doing. Copyright is important, but the U.S. Constitution balances copyright interests with those of society -- these bills do not -- the only parasites here are the copyright holders.

Why does this matter to you? The E-PARASITE bill provides your competitor or disgruntled customer endless ways to make your life miserable and even cause your website to disappear altogether without you even being asked for your side of the story. (See for details.)

Extremism seems to be a common approach to the world these days and the Internet is just the latest target, both domestically and internationally.