[governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom

[Robert Guerra]

Jeremy,

Indeed, in my view, it is far too US centric and fails to build on and recognize the significant work done by many key experts and organizations involved in the WSIS and IGF processes over the last 9-10 years (if not longer)

Suffice it to say,  I agree with most of your comments. I really expected something better from organizations such as Access 

regards

Robert


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On 2012-07-03, at 12:57 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> Most of you have probably seen the Declaration of Internet Freedom that is going around; see http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom.
> 
> It's not very good.
> 
> For one thing, it's very high-level and vague, so that if you look at the discussions, people are making all sorts of extrapolations from it like "if we have the ability to save something on our hard drives, we should have the right to freely copy and share it", arguing about whether anonymity is or is not included, etc.  It's just pretty sloppy and unhelpful.
> 
> For another, although a lot of groups have signed on to it, it seems to have been developed by a fairly narrow segment of US-based groups and entrepreneurs, and there was no serious attempt to reach out ahead of its launch yesterday.  Even a lot of people who are usually in the loop hadn't heard about it until the last minute.  At least one major European digital rights group has decided not to sign on.
> 
> Also, it contains no explicit mention of human rights, and the clear emphasis is on the interests of the Internet industry rather than users or non-user citizens/consumers (note the emphasis given, for such a short document, to the principle "don’t punish innovators for their users' actions").  Whilst I agree with the principle, it's not the first thing I'd include.
> 
> All that being said, these are just my views.  Does the IGC want to sign onto it?
> 
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