[governance] Foley and Internet Governance

[Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Dear All,

The world seems to be going mad with news of  beheading and Ukrainian plane being shot down all in several hours time.

Jim Foley a Journalist who brought to light a lot of atrocities and his beheading marks the escalation of insanity when ISIS fanatic beheads him in a message to Obama.

YouTube and Twitter have taken down aspects of the beheading so as to not give credence to terrorists. Some are demanding on Twitter that this is a breach of rights to access.

However, when terrorists want to invoke fear and spread their message of "hate" it becomes linked to "hate speech" which is an exception under Article 19 of the ICCPR and by right should be removed. Also out of sensitivity to the Foley family, we don't want the video becoming viral....

Really sad day. #worldgoingmad

Sala

Sent from my iPad
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