[governance] Egypt and Internet Governance

[Ian Peter]

Hi Roland,

I'm not suggesting this solves all problems - only that it creates the
beginning of a more principled approach to such requests and the beginning
of an understanding that humans have rights here that should not just be
subject to the politics and political knee jerk reactions of the day. Just
like police needing magistrates to issue search warrants, I guess - it
doesn't create an end to police states, but it does create a situation where
action to take down internet access needs to be justified according to the
laws of the nation state involved (poor those they might be).

I think its an important step for us to begin to lobby for such a code of
conduct, even if only voluntary at this stage. I think many of the internet
businesses would support such an approach, it helps them to have some
universally accepted guidelines as well.

Ian Peter


> From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Roland Perry
> <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:12:38 +0000
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Egypt and Internet Governance
> 
> In message <C96B527E.15C5D%ian.peter at ianpeter.com>, at 17:38:06 on Sun,
> 30 Jan 2011, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> writes
>> To me the first basic rule in these situations is that companies should be
>> required and should agree to act only on judicial orders, not to political
>> pressure.
> 
> And what if the Judge has no choice but to rubber-stamp a piece of paper
> where the government is declaring (under laws previously drawn up by
> politicians) that it's a national emergency?
> 
> [This is a general point, not aimed at any particular country or
> incident].
> -- 
> Roland Perry
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