<div dir="ltr">I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side.<div><br></div><div>Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">----<br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" style="width:45pt;height:45pt;table-layout:fixed;color:rgb(197,194,197)"><tbody><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="color:rgb(223,52,28);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(223,52,28);border-radius:50%">•</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom:1em"><div><b><br>Gus Rossi</b></div><div>Global Policy Director <a href="tel:(202)%20861-0020" value="+12028610020" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(202) 861-0020</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (x123) | </span><a href="tel:(202)%651-1337" value="+12025249576" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(202) 651 1337</a> <span style="font-size:12.8px">(mobile) | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/agustinrs" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@agustinrs</a><b><br></b></div></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000">Public Knowledge</font></b> | <a href="https://twitter.com/publicknowledge" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@publicknowledge</a> | <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.publicknowledge.org</a> <br>1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>The IP3 Awards are September 28th!</b> RSVP at <a href="http://publicknowledge.org/IP32017" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org/IP32017</a>.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renata.avila@webfoundation.org" target="_blank">renata.avila@webfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">R</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_1267805426154326039gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p>Renata Avila</p><p><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Senior Digital Rights Advisor</b></span><br></p><a href="mailto:renata.avila@webfoundation.org" target="_blank">renata.avila@webfoundation.org</a><p><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1110+Vermont+Ave+NW,+Suite+500,+Washington+DC+20005,+USA&entry=gmail&source=g">1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA</a></span></b><font size="2"> </font><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)">| </span></b><a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50);text-decoration:none">www.webfoundation.org</span></b></a><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)"> | Twitter: @webfoundation</span></b></p></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gus@publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">gus@publicknowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hi everyone,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Context: </b>Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>The Internet:</b> Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">.CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: <a href="https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/puntcat/s<wbr>tatus/910446518494269440</a>) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: <a href="http://ref1oct.cat/" target="_blank">http://ref1oct.cat<wbr>/</a>. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: <a href="http://ref1oct.eu/" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank">ref1oct.eu</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports<span style="font-size:12.8px">), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains).</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be worried.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="m_1267805426154326039m_8009163612450669505gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">----<br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" style="width:45pt;height:45pt;table-layout:fixed;color:rgb(197,194,197)"><tbody><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="color:rgb(223,52,28);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(223,52,28);border-radius:50%">•</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom:1em"><div><b><br>Gus Rossi</b></div><div>Global Policy Director <a href="tel:(202)%20861-0020" value="+12028610020" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(202) 861-0020</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (x123) | </span><a href="tel:(202)%651-1337" value="+12025249576" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(202) 651 1337</a> <span style="font-size:12.8px">(mobile) | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/agustinrs" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@agustinrs</a><b><br></b></div></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000">Public Knowledge</font></b> | <a href="https://twitter.com/publicknowledge" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@publicknowledge</a> |<wbr> <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.publicknowledge.org</a> <br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1818+N+St.+NW,+Suite+410+%7C%C2%A0Washington,+DC+20036&entry=gmail&source=g">1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036</a> | CFC 12259</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>The IP3 Awards are September 28th!</b> RSVP at <a href="http://publicknowledge.org/IP32017" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org/IP32017</a>.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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