[governance] Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation

[Baudouin Schombe]

I fear that after Tunis 2005, some states tend not to respect the Geneva
Declaration, the Action Plan of WSIS, commitment and the Tunis Agenda.

Baudouin

2011/11/16 Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>

> This is happening in the US where Censorship may get out of hands in
> the name of IP and Copyright but we are concerned that direct far
> reaching implications across the world where other governments might
> use this as an excuse for implementing strict Internet censorship
> regimes. Should IGC also respond to this as we have many members from
> the US and this also impacts Internet Governance?
>
> ............
>
> "We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some
> trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world," says
> Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web. "In the spirit going back to
> Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization
> shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will
> without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until
> found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed
> to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily
> furthering their own aims."
>
> COICA fact sheet: http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/coica
>
> ............
>
> Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation
>
> The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the
> Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a
> threatening sequel to last year's COICA Internet censorship bill. Like
> its predecessor, this legislation invites Internet security risks,
> threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge
> your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in
> both its forms!
>
> Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet
> Blacklist Legislation as a new way to prevent online infringement. But
> innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative is
> nothing more than a dangerous wish list that will compromise Internet
> security while doing little or nothing to encourage creative
> expression.
>
> As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private
> parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain
> name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and
> search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain
> websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to
> alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just
> the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer
> security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the
> DNS evaporates.
>
> It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including
> hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police
> their users’ activities.  While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated
> to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do
> enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear
> what would be enough).  And it creates new powers to shut down folks
> who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of
> the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).
>
> --
> Regards.
> --------------------------
> Fouad
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ACADEMIE DES TIC
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