<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">I fear</span> <span class="hps">that after</span> <span class="hps">Tunis 2005</span><span class="">, some states</span> <span class="hps">tend</span> <span class="hps">not to</span> <span class="hps">respect the</span> <span class="hps">Geneva Declaration</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">the Action Plan</span> <span class="hps">of WSIS</span><span class="">, commitment and</span> <span class="hps">the Tunis Agenda</span><span class="">.<br>
<br>Baudouin<br></span></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/16 Fouad Bajwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
This is happening in the US where Censorship may get out of hands in<br>
the name of IP and Copyright but we are concerned that direct far<br>
reaching implications across the world where other governments might<br>
use this as an excuse for implementing strict Internet censorship<br>
regimes. Should IGC also respond to this as we have many members from<br>
the US and this also impacts Internet Governance?<br>
<br>
............<br>
<br>
"We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some<br>
trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world," says<br>
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web. "In the spirit going back to<br>
Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization<br>
shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will<br>
without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until<br>
found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed<br>
to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily<br>
furthering their own aims."<br>
<br>
COICA fact sheet: <a href="http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/coica" target="_blank">http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/coica</a><br>
<br>
............<br>
<br>
Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation<br>
<br>
The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the<br>
Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a<br>
threatening sequel to last year's COICA Internet censorship bill. Like<br>
its predecessor, this legislation invites Internet security risks,<br>
threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge<br>
your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in<br>
both its forms!<br>
<br>
Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet<br>
Blacklist Legislation as a new way to prevent online infringement. But<br>
innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative is<br>
nothing more than a dangerous wish list that will compromise Internet<br>
security while doing little or nothing to encourage creative<br>
expression.<br>
<br>
As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private<br>
parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain<br>
name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and<br>
search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain<br>
websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to<br>
alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just<br>
the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer<br>
security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the<br>
DNS evaporates.<br>
<br>
It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including<br>
hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police<br>
their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated<br>
to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do<br>
enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear<br>
what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks<br>
who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of<br>
the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).<br>
<br>
--<br>
Regards.<br>
--------------------------<br>
Fouad<br>
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