<div><br></div>Now that I know that James Love's blog has been verified, here are my comments. The scenario that is described as being "local" has "global" implications and I will try to briefly point out why. <div>
<br></div><div>What we are seeing is only the "tip" of an iceberg which is scary. Alejandro and Anupam make a good point about standard filters and how they are used in private and sometimes public offices. Alejandro mentions the filtering of "sexual content".</div>
<div><br></div><div>We all know that Freedom of Expression is not absolute and there are rules. From International Law, we know of the exceptions, they have been regurgitated on the list for a long time. So we know that there are "exceptions" but what often does not get talked about is the abuse of these exceptions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>James in his email pointed us to some of the relevant facts. Primarily where filtering goes "beyond" the scope of what it was intended to which was to block "access to terrorist sites". </div>
<div><br></div><div><span style>Last year, the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Revisit the Press Release: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-11/cp110126en.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-11/</span></a></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> The actual Judgement was released on the 24th November, 2011</span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px"> and</span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is available here: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-70/10" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-70/10</span></a></span></div>
<div><div style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">What was interesting about the </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">Judgement</font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> was in relation to how they dealt with the prioritisation of rights, that is the rights if intellectual property owners, the rights of ISPs to conduct their business freely, the freedom to receive and impart information and the rights of consumers to privacy. "The injunction requiring installation of the contested filtering system involve a systematic analysis of all content,</font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> and the collection and identification of users' IP addresses from which unlawful content on the network is sent.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Those addresses are protected personal data because they allow those users to be precisely identified". </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">The consideration in how the Judges arrived at their decision is on [para 52, 53] where there is no guarantee that lawful content would not be blocked. After considering all the rights stemming from the Directives listed in para 55, the courts held in favour of "privacy" of consumers that is fundamental rights trumping when reading all of the Directives together. Although the European Court of Justice recommended that harmonization take place.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">The world revolted against SOPA, we lobbied against both SOPA and ACTA and there were countries who rejected them. However, it is no secret that the US is pro- Intellectual Property Rights protection. The same US Department of Commerce that is in charge of IANA is in charge of US PTO. Its actions whether a genuine mistake or otherwise have global ramifications. Don't get me wrong, I am not against the US, I quite love the country and have great respect for its governance systems and the rule of law etc.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">If anything we can see that the clear abuse of the exceptions is something happening globally and sadly it is something that does not get discussed all too often which is why absolutely loved the Freedom Online conference that took place in Nairobi of late.</p>
</div></div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:34 AM, James S. Tyre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jstyre@jstyre.com" target="_blank">jstyre@jstyre.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">Alejandro,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">It isn’t really that simple at all. Before I begin, however, let me state two things. First, I do not question that PTO turned the thing off shortly after becoming aware of it. Second, I assume that you’re not aware of some of the relevant facts and law, rather than that you’re ignoring them.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">PTO is a US government agency. A government agency as employer is not held to the same First Amendment restrictions as a government agency as government, but, unlike private sector employers, the government as employer is subject to some First Amendment restrictions.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">This particular filter was not in any way supposed to be similar to what is seen in corporate IT. It’s specific purpose, it’s only purpose, was to block access to terrorist sites and similar. (Some of that is required by US law, whether that’s a good or bad law is not something I plan on discussing here.) How any of the blacklisted sites could be found to be terrorist sites is incomprehensible. This was never supposed to be a pretty standard filter.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">Incidentally, the filter is the handiwork of Blue Coat, which did such a marvelous job of promoting free expression on the Internet in Syria, among other places, see, e.g., <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges-syrian-government-use-its-products" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges-syrian-government-use-its-products</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Interesting times ahead. </div>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:09 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro; Riaz K Tayob<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> RE: [governance] USPTO blocks web access to "Political/Activist Groups" including KEI, ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, Redstate, DailyKos<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Sala, <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">any knowledge of corporate IT will tell you that this is a pretty standard filter used in private as well as public offices. Usually installed by third parties who set up the networks or even run them, or accessed by IT at third-party sites. As Jamie Love writes as well, the filter was removed upon request. It is the same type of filter that would have caused some hotel reservation sites to be blocked "for sexual content."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Clues... they used to be more widely available.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Alejandro Pisanty<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">Desde:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a> [<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>] en nombre de Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro [<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>]<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Enviado el:</span></b> jueves, 20 de septiembre de 2012 05:02<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Hasta:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Riaz K Tayob<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Asunto:</span></b> Re: [governance] USPTO blocks web access to "Political/Activist Groups" including KEI, ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, Redstate, DailyKos</span></font><font color="black"><span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If what is reported is legitimate, we are in for some troubling times ahead of us. :( :(:( <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sala<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Riaz K Tayob <<a href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<div><div><h1><b><font size="6" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:24.0pt"><a href="http://keionline.org/node/1548" target="_blank">USPTO blocks web access to "Political/Activist Groups" including KEI, ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, Redstate, DailyKos</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h1>
<div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://keionline.org/node/1548" target="_blank">View</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://keionline.org/node/1548/backlinks" target="_blank">What links here</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></li>
</ul></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Submitted by James Love on 18. September 2012 - 12:32 <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Update:</span></font></b></strong><font color="black"><span> At 5 pm the USPTO called and said that the public access wifi network was using a filter, provided by a contractor, to block "political activist" sites. This filter was not used by the network providing Internet access for the USPTO staff. After our meeting, the USPTO reviewed its policies, and has removed the filter. USPTO says the filter was implemented by a contractor, and no one we talked to at USPTO was aware of who was being blocked. In any event, the filter has been removed. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div></blockquote><p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Today I was visiting the USPTO, for a high level meeting on global negotiations on intellectual property and access to medicine. The meeting was held in the Stockholm Room, on the 2nd floor of the USPTO library, at the main USPTO building at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. The USPTO also uses these meeting rooms for its Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA). The USPTO offers free Wifi for the visitors. But when I tried to login to <a href="http://keionline.org" title="http://keionline.org" target="_blank">http://keionline.org</a>, I received this message:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Access Denied (content_filter_denied) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Your request was denied because this URL contains content that is categorized as: "Political/Activist Groups" which is blocked by USPTO policy. If you believe the categorization is inaccurate, please contact the USPTO Service Desk and request a manual review of the URL.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For assistance, contact USPTO OCIO IT Service Desk. (io-proxy4)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div></blockquote><p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We checked and found that the USPTO blocks access to a number of groups that have followed SOPA and the TPP intellectual property negotiations, particularly those critical of the USPTO positions on intellectual property issues. Among the NGOs that were blocked were <a href="http://aclu.org" target="_blank">aclu.org</a>, <a href="http://cdt.org" target="_blank">cdt.org</a>, <a href="http://citizen.org" target="_blank">citizen.org</a>, <a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a>, <a href="http://healthgap.org" target="_blank">healthgap.org</a>, <a href="http://keionline.org" target="_blank">keionline.org</a> and <a href="http://publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org</a>. Among the sites NOT BLOCKED were the industry lobby groups BSA, MPPA, RIIA, and PhRMA. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The USPTO also selectively blocks certain blogs and new sites, including, for example, dailykos.coms, <a href="http://firedoglake.com" target="_blank">firedoglake.com</a>, <a href="http://redstate.org" target="_blank">redstate.org</a>, <a href="http://rushlimbaugh.com" target="_blank">rushlimbaugh.com</a> and <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com" target="_blank">talkingpointsmemo.com</a>., <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here are examples of what the USPTO blocks, and does not block. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr>
<td width="100" style="width:75.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blocked NGOs</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
</td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://aclu.org" target="_blank">aclu.org</a><br><a href="http://cdt.org" target="_blank">cdt.org</a><br>
<a href="http://citizen.org" target="_blank">citizen.org</a><br><a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a><br><a href="http://healthgap.org" target="_blank">healthgap.org</a><br><a href="http://keionline.org" target="_blank">keionline.org</a><br>
<a href="http://publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">publicknowledge.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NGOs that are NOT blocked</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
</td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://bsa.org" target="_blank">bsa.org</a><br><a href="http://creativecommons.org" target="_blank">creativecommons.org</a><br>
<a href="http://iipa.com" target="_blank">iipa.com</a><br><a href="http://iipi.org" target="_blank">iipi.org</a><br><a href="http://ipi.org" target="_blank">ipi.org</a><br><a href="http://mpaa.org" target="_blank">mpaa.org</a><br>
PhRMA.org<br><a href="http://pubpat.org" target="_blank">pubpat.org</a><br>RIIA.Org<br><a href="http://stockholm-network.org" target="_blank">stockholm-network.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blocked Blogs and news outlets</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p></td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">dailykos.coms<br><a href="http://firedoglake.com" target="_blank">firedoglake.com</a><br><a href="http://redstate.org" target="_blank">redstate.org</a><br>
<a href="http://rushlimbaugh.com" target="_blank">rushlimbaugh.com</a><br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com" target="_blank">talkingpointsmemo.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blogs and new outlets that are NOT blocked </span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p></td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://71patent.blogspot.com" target="_blank">71patent.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://aljazeera.com" target="_blank">aljazeera.com</a><br>
<a href="http://boingboing.net" target="_blank">boingboing.net</a><br><a href="http://dailycaller.com" target="_blank">dailycaller.com</a><br><a href="http://democracynow.org" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br><a href="http://drudgereport.com" target="_blank">drudgereport.com</a><br>
<a href="http://groklaw.net" target="_blank">groklaw.net</a><br><a href="http://huffingtonpost.com" target="_blank">huffingtonpost.com</a><br><a href="http://ip-watch.org" target="_blank">ip-watch.org</a><br><a href="http://itcblog.com" target="_blank">itcblog.com</a><br>
<a href="http://lessig.org" target="_blank">lessig.org</a><br><a href="http://michaelgeist.ca" target="_blank">michaelgeist.ca</a><br><a href="http://nationalreview.com" target="_blank">nationalreview.com</a><br><a href="http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com" target="_blank">spicyipindia.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a href="http://techdirt.com" target="_blank">techdirt.com</a><br><a href="http://washingtonmonthly.com" target="_blank">washingtonmonthly.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><ul type="disc">
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Submitted by Anonymous dude or dudess on 19. September 2012 - 12:02. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div><div>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">'Ex-Patent Examiner here. If this was anything other than a contractor foul-up, I'll eat my hat. There were a dozen instances where I'd need to call the help desk to access a website that would enable me to do my job.' If true, this means no one at USPTO tried to access those sites and asked for the filter to be removed since it was implemented.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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