[governance] Statement by IGC supporting rights and principles

[Eric Dierker]

I think McTim meant to write:
 
How on earth can a thinking person not say this?

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Statement by IGC supporting rights and principles
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 8:12 PM


McTim, could you explain why you say: 
"How on earth can we justify saying this?"
I am sorry that I do not have time to document any cases, but I hope someone else will. These are some quick links I found, but did not review:

There have been proposals by governments to implement some kind of filtering or censorship in several countries (I believe)
See: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens3.html

China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

Austrailia http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24568137-2862,00.html
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens1.html

France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship
http://koeus.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/france-joins-the-list-of-internet-censoring-countries/

Germany.
http://netzpolitik.org/2009/the-dawning-of-internet-censorship-in-germany/
http://opennet.net/blog/2009/01/internet-censorship-germany

While I do agree that one has the right to JOIN an network that includes and excludes certain topics, much as any association or club might do, I do not think a government can IMPOSE these restrictions on a segment of the Internet.

I am in a rush today, so I may have missed something obvious here. Sorry if that is the case. Either way, I would appreciate a clarification.

Thanks,
Best,
Ginger

McTim wrote: 
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Lisa Horner<lisa at global-partners.co.uk> wrote:
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DRAFT STATEMENT - RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES

The Caucus [and undersigned DCs] repeat their request that the programme for IGF-4 in Egypt gives the required attention to human rights.  The WSIS Declaration and Tunis Agenda reaffirmed the centrality of human rights in the information society, but human rights and associated principles have received very little attention at the IGF so far.  This is problematic as:
•       Fundamental human right such as the rights to freedom of expression, privacy and education are threatened by current internet governance processes and practice.
    
How on earth can we justify saying this?

  
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