[governance] Twitter officially shutdown to Internet users in Pakistan

[Andrea Glorioso]

Dear Bill, dear all,

Speaking on a purely personal basis and without referring specifically to
the CIRP proposal (which, to my understanding, was not and is not meant as
a legislative instrument) what would be the effect of an agreement
stipulating (a) certain basic conditions that must be met by service
providers in a jurisdiction, (b) that signatories could not block services
except outside clearly defined and circumscribed circumstances?

This is not that different from the EU "single market" approach and it has
not worked so bad for us - if you compare it to the previous situatuon and
certainly not for lack of protectionist tendencies by EU Member States.

Best,

Andrea
On May 20, 2012 4:39 PM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> On May 20, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>
> > Twitter officially shutdown in Pakistan - Twitter Banned in Pakistan
> >
> http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/2012/05/twitter-officially-shutdown-in-pakistan.html
>
>
> If only "the oversight of the Internet's critical technical and logical
> infrastructure" could be "transferred to an appropriate, democratic and
> participative multilateral body" so that Pakistan would not be forced to
> take unilateral action merely to shut out this evil monopolist that, with
> three other sites, controls "much of what is considered to be the Internet
> today by most people today".
>
>
> On May 13, 2012, at 12:25 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
>
> >>
> >> "The telecommunications minister has ordered the use of domain names
> >> ending with .ir" belonging to Iran, Asr Ertebatat reported.
> >>
> >> The order prohibits banks, insurance firms and telephone firms using
> >> foreign hosts for their sites or to inform their clients using foreign
> >> providers such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or MSN, it said.
>
>
> If only "the oversight of the Internet's critical technical and logical
> infrastructure" could be "transferred to an appropriate, democratic and
> participative multilateral body" so that Iran would not be forced to take
> unilateral action merely to shut out these evil monopolists...
>
> We demand it!
>
>
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