[governance] Congratulations Charles Mok from the IGC! #Hong Kong Elections

Ginger Paque gpaque at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 06:05:31 EDT 2012 

Congratulations to Charles, and to HK! This is wonderful news. Good luck
and energy, Charles!
Warm regards, with wonderful memories of HK...
Ginger

Ginger (Virginia) Paque

VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu
Diplo Foundation
Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme
www.diplomacy.edu/ig
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On 10 September 2012 00:51, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Please join me in warmly congratulating Charles Mok who has just won a
> seat of the Information Technology Functional Constituency for the Hong
> Kong Legislative Council with 2, 828 votes, against Samson Tam his only
> opponent (2063) votes.
>
> I am super glad that Hong Kong has a dynamic, intelligent, hard working
> advocate as one of its Legislative Councillor.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mok
>
> With every best wish Charles!
>
> Sala
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Charles Mok (gmail) <charlespmok at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Similar happened in HK yesterday and about 10 social activists including
>> one opposition legislator had their fb accounts suspended for a few hours.
>>  I contacted fb public policy people and around the same time their
>> accounts gradually came back unblocked.  fb has not provided clear
>> explanation of the reasons.
>>
>> English report: (paid content)
>>
>> http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=445f1383709a7310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News
>>
>> Widely reported in Chinese newspapers also.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Oksana,
>>>
>>> Why/on whose orders/recommendation were they blocked?
>>>
>>> M
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
>>> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Oksana
>>> Prykhodko
>>> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:24 PM
>>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; William Drake
>>> Subject: Re: [governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed
>>> in
>>> Brazil
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, all
>>>
>>> Today Facebook blocked accounts of nearly 10 Ukrainian independent
>>> journalists. But, after active campaign in social media and addresses to
>>> Facebook CEO, these accounts were unblocked.
>>>
>>> May be it is time to think about ombudsmen for social media - as a
>>> mediator
>>> between users and CEO?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Oksana
>>>
>>> 2012/6/1 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>:
>>> > Hi Marilia
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On May 31, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I am totally in favor of achieving "harmony" on this and other topics.
>>> > But this is a crossborder issue that involves private forces and
>>> > public interest. Tell me the place where we can globally tackle this
>>> > issue, all together, in a multistakeholder fashion and I will be the
>>> > first to attend and try to contribute so that “harmony” can come
>>> > about. But first we probably need to fight for such a space to exist.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I guess I'm with Roland and others who'd note that the Internet is not
>>> > the web and the web is not FB, so while FB's TOR are overly paranoid
>>> > and restrictive, there are other places to post stuff, and it's at
>>> > least debatable whether this rises to the level of being global
>>> > Internet governance.  But I have different questions.  In
>>> > conversations in Geneva and here (and the IT4C letter did the same),
>>> > you've cited FB policies as evidence there's an urgent need for
>>> > enhanced cooperation in the form of a platform under the UN.   But why
>>> > not organize an online campaign---per ACTA SOPA PIPA—of fellow FB
>>> > users to put pressure on FB directly (and for that matter, use the IGF
>>> > in parallel to stoke the debate), rather than creating a centralized
>>> > uber mechanism responsible for this and all else?
>>> >  Why do you think a WG/CIRP/whatever that would be populated inter
>>> alia by
>>> > Geneva reps of the very governments that make FB paranoid in the first
>>> place
>>> > would be more likely to agree that nudity is ok and FB should allow it
>>> > without fear of government reprisals?
>>> >
>>> > There are many CS and other actors who share your concerns about
>>> > individual issues---FoE IPR privacy surveillance etc---and the meta
>>> > issue of concentrated power but just have trouble seeing a one-stop
>>> > shop in the UN as the right solution.  Since the case for why it would
>>> > be really hasn't been made in any detail, isn't there a risk that
>>> > insisting it's the only option left-minded people may consider (and in
>>> > some tellings, that any nonbelievers are morally suspect, don't care
>>> > about developing countries, etc) just limits coalition building?  Can
>>> > we agree that at the Baku pre-event and beyond, it'd be useful to work
>>> > through the relative merits of different institutional designs?
>>> > Personally, I've always favored WGs in the IGF &
>>> > strengthening/connecting advocacy coalitions working in different
>>> > spaces (although as the APC network of networks effort showed, that's
>>> > difficult), but there are other options, a new UN body being just one.
>>>
>>> > So let's compare and contrast?
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> >
>>> > Bill
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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