[governance] Why we are boycotting the IGF (by Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altiparmak)

[Sivasubramanian M]

Dear Parminder

Yes, I fully support your idea of a Civil Society statement against
Government censorship of Internet, with laws such as controversial Internet
Law No 5651
<http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/02/amendments-internet-law-approved-turkish-parliament-remain-murky/>.
In this instance, "the law is ostensibly aimed to protect children from
harmful content, from the very beginning it has been used to prevent
adults’ access to information" so the focus of the statement could be
against the exploitation of of Security concerns of popular appeal so as to
bring in unfair censorship laws that could be abused for control over
citizens, in Turkey, in United States, India, China, Pakistan and Europe
and elsewhere. The Civil Society statement could be emphatically against
blocking Internet and against unbalanced directives to Social Media and
oppression of free speech in all the free world.

Civil Society could also invite Yaman Akdeniz & Kerem Altiparmak to take
part to emphasize their views rather than boycott.

Thank you.





Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>



On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:

>
> This is serious, and civil society groups should issue a statement in
> support, preferably on the venue during the IGF days.. parminder
>
>
>  On Friday 22 August 2014 10:29 AM, Chinmayi Arun wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
>  I just ran into this piece
> <http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/08/boycotting-internet-governance-forum/>
> by Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altiparmak. Civil society folks who will be at
> the IGF this year may find it interesting- it flags significant
>  internet-related concerns in Turkey.
>
>  Best,
> Chinmayi
>
>
>
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