[governance] Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi

Sun Aug 10 04:44:57 EDT 2014

Dear all,

I am writing to you from Ukraine - I hope you know that we are in the stage
of undeclared war with Russia.

The issue of WiFi access is extremely important, I travelled a lot, I saw
the demand to picture yourself in Hungary to get access to Internet at
railway station. No problems.

The problem is with censorship. It was great to participate in EuroDIG this
year in Berlin. It was a disaster not to be heard at all. Few minutes ago I
did receive information that German ISP Hetzner Online AG apologized for
their attempts to block Ukrainian media Glavcom on demand of Russian
censorship.

On October 2 2014  we will organize our traditional Forum in Kiev
(Ukraine). This time we will change its title - from Media for information
society to Media for information society and against war.

We have very limited budget. We can't pay for participations of a lot of
foreign experts. We would be happy to see all of you in Kiev. At least on
remote basis))))

Best regards,
Oksana

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, I wish to back up Chaitanya as long as the public wifi would not
> have some site blocking.
> It is VIP to have identification of those using your network in this era
> of internet warfare.
> Remmy Nweke
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <
> chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see why this would be a human rights violation (speaking from
>> India pov) given the fact that:
>>
>> 1. You need to submit ID proof when you take an internet connection at
>> your residence/office
>> 2. You need to product ID proof while using a cyber cafe
>>
>> So since this regulatory aspect is already put in place one would
>> naturally expect that if there's some form of public wifi the service
>> provider would ask for ID proof...?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> *Chaitanya Dhareshwar*
>>
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>>
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>  Reuters:
>>>
>>> Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/08/us-russia-internet-idUSKBN0G81RV20140808
>>>
>>> In my view this is a clear human rights violation and something that I
>>> would expect us all to be able to agree to condemn.
>>>
>>> May I request the IGC coordinators to coordinate some action in regard
>>> to this matter?
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Norbert
>>>
>>>
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