Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Please join me in warmly congratulating Charles Mok who has just won a seat of the Information Technology Functional Constituency for the Hong Kong Legislative Council with 2, 828 votes, against Samson Tam his only opponent (2063) votes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am super glad that Hong Kong has a dynamic, intelligent, hard working advocate as one of its Legislative Councillor. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mok">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mok</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>With every best wish Charles!</div><div><br></div><div>Sala<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Charles Mok (gmail) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlespmok@gmail.com" target="_blank">charlespmok@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Similar happened in HK yesterday and about 10 social activists including one opposition legislator had their fb accounts suspended for a few hours. I contacted fb public policy people and around the same time their accounts gradually came back unblocked. fb has not provided clear explanation of the reasons.<div>
<br></div><div>English report: (paid content)<br><a href="http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=445f1383709a7310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News" target="_blank">http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=445f1383709a7310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Widely reported in Chinese newspapers also.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Charles</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, michael gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Oksana,<br>
<br>
Why/on whose orders/recommendation were they blocked?<br>
<div><br>
M<br>
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To: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; William Drake<br>
Subject: Re: [governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in<br>
Brazil<br>
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</div><div><div>Hi, all<br>
<br>
Today Facebook blocked accounts of nearly 10 Ukrainian independent<br>
journalists. But, after active campaign in social media and addresses to<br>
Facebook CEO, these accounts were unblocked.<br>
<br>
May be it is time to think about ombudsmen for social media - as a mediator<br>
between users and CEO?<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Oksana<br>
<br>
2012/6/1 William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>>:<br>
> Hi Marilia<br>
><br>
><br>
> On May 31, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:<br>
><br>
> I am totally in favor of achieving "harmony" on this and other topics.<br>
> But this is a crossborder issue that involves private forces and<br>
> public interest. Tell me the place where we can globally tackle this<br>
> issue, all together, in a multistakeholder fashion and I will be the<br>
> first to attend and try to contribute so that “harmony” can come<br>
> about. But first we probably need to fight for such a space to exist.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I guess I'm with Roland and others who'd note that the Internet is not<br>
> the web and the web is not FB, so while FB's TOR are overly paranoid<br>
> and restrictive, there are other places to post stuff, and it's at<br>
> least debatable whether this rises to the level of being global<br>
> Internet governance. But I have different questions. In<br>
> conversations in Geneva and here (and the IT4C letter did the same),<br>
> you've cited FB policies as evidence there's an urgent need for<br>
> enhanced cooperation in the form of a platform under the UN. But why<br>
> not organize an online campaign---per ACTA SOPA PIPA—of fellow FB<br>
> users to put pressure on FB directly (and for that matter, use the IGF<br>
> in parallel to stoke the debate), rather than creating a centralized<br>
> uber mechanism responsible for this and all else?<br>
> Why do you think a WG/CIRP/whatever that would be populated inter alia by<br>
> Geneva reps of the very governments that make FB paranoid in the first<br>
place<br>
> would be more likely to agree that nudity is ok and FB should allow it<br>
> without fear of government reprisals?<br>
><br>
> There are many CS and other actors who share your concerns about<br>
> individual issues---FoE IPR privacy surveillance etc---and the meta<br>
> issue of concentrated power but just have trouble seeing a one-stop<br>
> shop in the UN as the right solution. Since the case for why it would<br>
> be really hasn't been made in any detail, isn't there a risk that<br>
> insisting it's the only option left-minded people may consider (and in<br>
> some tellings, that any nonbelievers are morally suspect, don't care<br>
> about developing countries, etc) just limits coalition building? Can<br>
> we agree that at the Baku pre-event and beyond, it'd be useful to work<br>
> through the relative merits of different institutional designs? <br>
> Personally, I've always favored WGs in the IGF &<br>
> strengthening/connecting advocacy coalitions working in different<br>
> spaces (although as the APC network of networks effort showed, that's<br>
> difficult), but there are other options, a new UN body being just one. <br>
> So let's compare and contrast?<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
><br>
> Bill<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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