[Chapter-delegates] Safe internet campaign

Sat Jul 28 00:42:44 PDT 2007

 Alejandro and Tony,
You are not aware how rght you are! In the background to our intended
campaign is a law proposal in our Parlament  tha if aproved will oblige
ISPs to install filtering software *by default* to users unless they
specifically ask not to filter theur content. We were amazed by the wide
support in the Parlament from left and right, with known feminists
supporting the proposal in the grounds of defending childrens from
pornograhic content.  Alejandro wrote,  the panic aroused by some events
publicized in the media with a lack of understanding of the internet
leads to an urge of control, censorship. 
Ironically, we were almost concluding a self regulation agreement
between ISPs and content providers - and they withdrawed drom it on the
ground that now there is a law proposal, everything they agrre will be
taked for granted and will be the start for negotiations.
It seems to us that the situation is similar to that in Australia back
in 1999 - when a law proposal started a process of compromise and self
regulation.
ISOC-IL is leading the struggle against the law proposal, along with a
coaliton of bloggers and various NGOs. The capaign we wish to launch is
intended to encourage parents to take responsibility for educating their
children, and give them some tips on specific issues related to the
Internet, exactly as Alejandro put so well.
Thank you all for your sugestions, they were very helpful

Rimon Levy, President
ISOC-IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hill [mailto:tony at keanyhill.wattle.id.au] 
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:16 AM
To: Alejandro Pisanty
Cc: rimon at isoc.org.il; chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Safe internet campaign

I agree with Alejandro.  There are many "community discussion" issues
that can be used to derail or at least distract from positive
development of the Internet.  We have seen a host of these distraction
issues in Australia.

Even the early stages of the debate about content fell into this
category with attempts to filter all Internet content.  This is a very
important area for ISOC Chapters to ensure that such debate is soundly
based on technical facts and a realistic understanding of operations of
the Internet.  I think that the NetAlert site has finally reached a
position something like this.

Also, you may be able to use some of the information that we put
together in 1999 on this subject.  See
http://www.isoc-au.org.au/Submissions/Submissions.html

regards, Tony Hill
ISOC-AU
Australia

Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> Hi Rimon, and all,
>
> "safe Internet campaigns" are a valuable effort but are also fraught 
> with some serious potential complications. A word of care here:
>
> It is very usual, and easy, for people to get fired up about "safe 
> navigation for kids" on the grounds of easy access to pornographic 
> content and of horror stories of harassment, pedophilia, and worse. A 
> lot of it comes from parents who think of the Internet as the Web and 
> are barely aware, if at all, of what actually goes on.
>
> This, combined with technophobia, luddism, etc. can easily feed 
> campaigns, or campaigners, who immediately lean toward content 
> control, filtering, censorship, etc. (we are seeing one example 
> develop right now in Mexico and there have been many others.)
>
> So it is very important to do as you are doing in Israel, that is, to 
> promote the positive aspects of the Internet, and to be frank and open

> about the risks and their real size. And to emphasize that safe 
> navigation is not something that the Net will solve for you - parents 
> and teachers cannot abdicate from their responsibilities to their 
> children in educating them to navigate the Internet safely, the same 
> way they teach them to navigate through streets, schools, and life in
general.
>
> A former ISOC member, Ms. Parry Aftab, has created excellent contents 
> for these campaigns, and is very open to all sorts of collaboration 
> for this purpose - keeping the Internet open at the same time! See 
> http://www.aftab.com for more. She was in Mexico recently, as the ISOC

> contribution to a conference on Internet security, and really created 
> a splash. She has most recently licensed comics from Marvel Comics to 
> use them for children safety on the Internet, and published a neat, 
> useful guide to fight cyberbullying.
>
> In Mexico we have created (in UNAM, my university) a home-user site 
> with information and tips, and also some comics-like characters which 
> are used in magazines. We'll be glad to share.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
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> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rimon Levy wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:22:11 +0300
>> From: Rimon Levy <Rimon at sapir.ac.il>
>> Reply-To: rimon at isoc.org.il
>> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Safe internet campaign
>>
>> At ISOC-IL we are planning to launch a campaign on safe internet for 
>> kids. We found that parents are worried about the risks (widely 
>> publicized by the media) of kids using the internet , and from the 
>> other side are not very acquainted to the internet, or  do not access

>> the Internet at all. So we want to reach them by other channels, 
>> diferent from a web site.
>> The idea is to launch a campaign stressing the good things that can 
>> be achieved trought the use of the Internet, along with tips to 
>> parents and childrens how to minimize the risks.
>> Something like
>> http://www.pta.org/archive_article_details_1153866875015.html
>>
>> If some of you have information about similar campaigns in your 
>> country, we will be glad to get a reference to it. This could help us

>> to  can learn about others experience and  use the references to 
>> demonstrate what we have in mind to decision makers in Government and

>> private sector, so we can convince them to support the initiative.
>>
>> Rimon Levy, President
>> ISOC-IL
>>
>>     
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