Several lawsuits are expected to try to block the change, and a political shift in Washington could also lead to a reinstatement of the rules, Cerf told journalists on the sidelines of an annual conference on internet governance in Geneva. Critics say that without the rules, broadband providers could change how the internet works by possibly blocking or throttling services or websites for competitive reasons. Cerf also cautioned that the “blockchain” technology that underpins cryptocurrencies was not optimal in areas where there is a very high rate of transactions. “It certainly does not have the character of a system for keeping track of… billions of transactions a day,” he said. During Thursday’s press conference, he scribbled notes on paper, acknowledging that “for me, this is like a plug-in extra memory.”False paradise?

Source: The Express Tribune December 22, 2017 12:00 UTC