<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>There used to be an initiative from the French and Dutch government to make the Internet an fundamental Right in a democracy... I spoke about it earlier... <span><br><br>Seems ISOC HQ was not interested at the time...<br><br><span name="x"></span><div><div><div>Franck Martin<br><a href="http://www.avonsys.com/" mce_href="http://www.avonsys.com/">http://www.avonsys.com/</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys">http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys</a><br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FranckMartin" mce_href="http://twitter.com/FranckMartin">FranckMartin</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/avonsys" mce_href="http://twitter.com/avonsys">Avonsys</a><br><br>Check your domain reputation: <a href="http://gurl.im/b69d4o" mce_href="http://gurl.im/b69d4o">http://gurl.im/b69d4o</a><br></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Christian de Larrinaga" <cdel@firsthand.net><br><b>To: </b>"Franck Martin" <franck@avonsys.com><br><b>Cc: </b>chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org, patrick@vande-walle.eu<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 30 January, 2011 1:09:05 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Chapter-delegates] Egypt blocking Facebook & Twitter<br><br><div>It is notable that the debate politically has moved since the banking crisis from an open Internet to domain name seizure and now physical and signalling disconnections and not just in Egypt, but in UK, USA, Europe and so on. </div><div><br></div><div>The implications of damage to the economic, societal and political life in and between countries if such a policy were to be implemented are simply unfathomable. Perhaps the Egyptian situation may give cause for pause. I hope so. </div><div><br></div><div>I see from the article that Lynn is in Davos. This gives an opportunity to press the point that such policies are liable to increase instabilities not just locally or regionally but in the case of US, UK and other highly connected countries globally. Egypt is not an example to follow. It is an important message.</div><div><br></div><div>Local disconnections imply global disconnections. It is a foreign policy and world trade issue not simply one of internal security.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Christian</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 29 Jan 2011, at 12:39, Franck Martin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;" mce_style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" mce_style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/how_governments_can_flip_the_i.html" mce_href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/how_governments_can_flip_the_i.html" target="_blank">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/how_governments_can_flip_the_i.html</a><span><br><br><span></span></span><br></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>