[governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom

[Izumi AIZU]

Wolfgang and all, as the coordinated of QuoVadis IGF, I Adam open to such
suggestions.

Any specific names or points to add to the current WS proposal ?
Thanks
Izumi

2012年7月3日火曜日 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de:

> To avoid duplication or working in parallel I propose to organize the Quo
> Vadis workshop as a joint event IGC & DC.
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> Von: Benedek, Wolfgang (wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at <javascript:;>)
> [mailto:wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at <javascript:;>]
> Gesendet: Di 03.07.2012 14:46
> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org <javascript:;>; Jeremy Malcolm
> Betreff: AW: [governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom
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> What I wanted to point out as well is that we already have two more
> declarations under this name, the Geneva Declaration on Internet Freedom of
> 2010 by a group of NGOs and the Guiding Principles of Internet Freedom of
> 2012 by Praxis think tank of Estonia, which are both more elaborate.
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> It would be good to bring all these initiatives together and the DC on
> Internet Rights and Principles would be a suitable place for doing so.
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> Unfortunately, people seem prefer to work in parallel which might limit
> the effects of such efforts.
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> Wolfgang Benedek
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> Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek
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> Institute for International Law and International Relations
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> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org <javascript:;> [mailto:
> governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org <javascript:;>] Im Auftrag von
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Juli 2012 06:57
> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org <javascript:;>
> Betreff: [governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom
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> 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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                     >> Izumi Aizu <<
Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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