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

Sun Aug 10 11:24:06 EDT 2014

Dear Oksana,

Greetings from Argentina. Will you have streaming for the event?

Kind regards,
Analía Aspis

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Oksana Prykhodko <sana.pryhod at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>> Mobile: +91.9820760253
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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