[governance] Internet Freedom vs. Blocking

[Eric Dierker]

This is a very interesting study, thank you for bringing it to this forum.
 
I had to shake off the cobwebs and review the very important; 
"European Convention on Human Rights" and then review: Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then refer to the 
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
 
However one need not read this "study" for very long to be brought right back time and time again to this "Who should choose what should be blocked on the Internet?" on page 11. Well and this on page 175*
 
But what they basically describe and reveal and force one to conclude is that there are no special rules just for the Internet. When we try to carve out a cool very exceptional niche, it always comes back that the most successful models would have the Internet fully integrated with the rest of society and rules and laws that apply thereto.
 
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As a result, operating an electronic communications network and blocking are philosophically
in opposition, and asking an operator to implement a blocking measure would put it in a
position where two obligations with contradictory effects have to be respected.
This is another argument for not requesting the industry of a given country to implement
blocking on the basis of a contract or an agreement with the government, but to hold the
measure within a law, which would take into account the possible interference of the blocking
measure in the other obligations the operators are legally responsible for.


--- On Sat, 10/24/09, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:


From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Subject: [governance] Internet Freedom vs. Blocking
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 7:14 AM


FYI

http://www.aconite.com/sites/default/files/Internet_blocking_and_Democracy.pdf

Wolfgang
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