<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>This is a very interesting study, thank you for bringing it to this forum.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had to shake off the cobwebs and review the very important; <FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face=Verdana size=2></DIV>
<DIV>"European Convention on Human Rights" and then review: Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then refer to the <FONT face=Verdana-Bold size=2><FONT face=Verdana-Bold size=2></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>However one need not read this "study" for very long to be brought right back time and time again to this "<FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Who should choose what should be blocked on the Internet?" on page 11. Well and this on page 175*</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>But what they basically describe and reveal and force one to conclude is that there are no special rules just for the Internet. When we try to carve out a cool very exceptional niche, it always comes back that the most successful models would have the Internet fully integrated with the rest of society and rules and laws that apply thereto.</DIV>
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<P align=left>As a result, operating an electronic communications network and blocking are philosophically</DIV>
<P align=left>in opposition, and asking an operator to implement a blocking measure would put it in a</DIV>
<P align=left>position where two obligations with contradictory effects have to be respected.</DIV>
<P align=left>This is another argument for not requesting the industry of a given country to implement</DIV>
<P align=left>blocking on the basis of a contract or an agreement with the government, but to hold the</DIV>
<P align=left>measure within a law, which would take into account the possible interference of the blocking</DIV>
<DIV>measure in the other obligations the operators are legally responsible for.</DIV>
<DIV></FONT></FONT><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 10/24/09, "<SPAN>Kleinwächter</SPAN>, Wolfgang" <I><wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de><BR>Subject: [governance] Internet Freedom vs. Blocking<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 7:14 AM<BR><BR>
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