[governance] China supports UK Internet Policy

[Riaz K Tayob]

In all of these issues there is the Human Rights requirement of 
proportionality.

It is easy to turn it all off, or to violate the piracy of many. In what 
circumstances would this be justified given the ambivalent nature of 
technology (i.e. snooping and deep packet searching are technologies 
that impose obligations on the state too, why cut when these are 
available)? Funny how so much of this "spy" stuff is used to track 
ordinary folk but can't catch a Madoff!

Riaz

On 2011/08/20 03:44 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message 
> <CA+=oXBJQ1-8bBtka4vrzCUGBEPGW2cw90ZGZ=KS9P__GKZsgmQ at mail.gmail.com>, 
> at 08:31:36 on Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Ivar A. M. Hartmann 
> <ivarhartmann at gmail.com> writes
>> We can't forget that a curfew is a impediment on actions (violence, 
>> theft etc) and will therefore always be something different than 
>> cutting off communications or the free flow of information 
>> (incitements of violence, threats, planning of crimes).
>
> I disagree. A curfew doesn't just operate inside shops which are being 
> looted. It applies to a neighbourhood, where people in the streets are 
> simply planning on robbing and burning, or even planning on assembling 
> in order to decide where to rob and burn.
>
>> After we blur the difference between stopping criminal actions 
>> themselves and censoring communication that arguably leads to such 
>> actions, it's only downhill from there..
>
> Censorship is about selective barring of communications. A curfew bars 
> them all.
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t