[bestbits] OPED: Brazil: the New Internet Freedom Champion?

[Shahzad Ahmad]

Media reporting a new "safe" email service being developed by Brazilians.

Is it a step towards further balkanization of the Internet? Each county
concerned about their cyber safety will be introducing such services?

Will government then in any case take control of communication channels?

Interesting times :)

Best wishes and regards
Shahzad

From:  Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Organization:  Consumers International
Date:  Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:27 AM
To:  <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject:  Re: [bestbits] OPED: Brazil: the New Internet Freedom Champion?

    
 
On 16/10/13 08:49, Eduardo Bertoni wrote:
 
 
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> For instance, if Brazil were to join the Freedom Online Coalition
> <http://www.freedomonline.tn/Fr/home_46_4> , a group of governments committed
> to advance Internet freedom, it would send a positive message to the
> international community. Countries that join the coalition endorse a statement
> supporting the principle that all people enjoy the same human rights online as
> they do offline. From Latin America, only Costa Rica and Mexico are part of
> the coalition. On the other hand, other countries that are not members of the
> coalition, such as Russia, China and India, have taken steps in the wrong
> direction. For example, in the past, they have presented draft resolutions to
> the UN General assembly, which would have put in risk Internet governance. For
> Brazil, joining the Freedom Online Coalition would be a turning point and a
> step in the opposite direction, demonstrating that it takes some distance from
> its partners in groups such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and
> IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa).
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 It would be very interesting to read a reply from the perspective of India.
We can't overlook that the United States is also a member of the Freedom
Online Coalition.  Not to mention say Tunisia, which is ranked a full point
lower than India in the Freedom House survey.  Given that the "Internet
freedom" slogan has suffered a serious blow from the NSA revelations, it is
quite debatable what was the "wrong direction" to take in opposition to the
status-quoist position on Internet governance taken by the FOC states.  Hmm.
 
 
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