[bestbits] Sign-on Statement - Verisign

[willi uebelherr]

Hallo Niels,

this text is a veil of reality. The process of openess destruction is 
concentrated in North America and Europe. The link to China is a 
distraction and deception. The technical mechanism to block the freedom 
of expression is installed or should installed everywhere.

And "real name policies for domain name registration" where is the 
problem? To give people like whistleblowers or real investigative 
writers anonym access is always possible.

The biggest problems in this area comes from the state organisations in 
the NATO block, members and allies.

many greetings, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay


On 30/11/2016 09:10, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> The recent news that Facebook had built censorship software to enable it
> to operate in China caused concern about the complicity of large tech
> companies in human rights violations online, but Facebook is not the
> only company engaged in this kind of work.
>
> Verisign, one of the Internet’s largest infrastructure providers [0], is
> currently building infrastructure that will help the Chinese government
> crack down on freedom of expression and the right to privacy.
>
> By making standards and building infrastructure to comply with China’s
> plan to introduce the Internet Domain Name Management Rules. If adopted,
> these will implement real name policies for domain name registration in
> China, Verisign is contributing to an infrastructure of repression.
> Verisign’s efforts at ICANN and IETF would facilitate the new rules, and
> present a serious risk to internet users in China and across the world.
> Verisign is doing this before the draft rules are even law in China, and
> if it continues with this work, it can be expected that this
> infrastructure will also be demanded by other repressive governments.
>
> ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned about these efforts, and we have
> drafted the attached statement and recommendations in an effort to
> pressure Verisign to uphold their human rights responsibilities in
> accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
>
> We hope that you will join us in this effort by adding your support to
> this statement.
>
> We plan to publish the joint statement on Thursday November 1st, so
> please contact Emma (cc) if your organisation would like to sign on as
> soon as possible, but by Wednesday 30th 23:59 at the latest.
>
> Thanks in advance, and looking forward to seeing many of you at IGF.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Niels
>
> PS If you want to sign on, we will send you a final copy with all
> sign-ons for republishing on your website.
>
> PS2 We'll also keep the statement open for sign-on after publishing.
>
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign
>
>
>
>
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