[Chapter-delegates] Internet Freedom

[Zaid Ali]

Nice quote from Graham!

I am quite concerned about the "World Government of the Internet" proposal.
Fear is what gave birth to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, fear that the United
States and Soviet Union might achieve military technology in outer space,
fear that competition for prime real estate on celestial bodies might result
in war between superpowers etc etc. What did all this result in? The space
age coming to an utter crawl and most scientists point out that the 1967
Space treaty deserves a large part of the blame. There were no doubt good
intentions were in the core principles but the 1967 Outer Space treaty
basically became a tragedy of commons.

I am worried that fear is what is driving the motivations behind "World
Government of the Internet" and thinking in a state of fear doesn't yield
good results. I am confident that the principles behind such an initiative
are good and probably no different than what we in the Internet Society work
to promote but I worry that the implementation of such a treaty will have
serious economic consequences for developing nations. A question to ask here
is "Can sovereign nations push their local ISP's to provide Internet for
everyone and bear all costs as societies grow?"

Zaid 


On 9/20/10 11:52 AM, "Franck Martin" <franck at avonsys.com> wrote:

> And now on 
> slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/20/1628242/Europe-Proposes-Int
> ernational-Internet-Treaty

anyone? anyone?


Franck Martin
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From: Patrik Fältström
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Date: 29 juni 2010 15.10.59 CEST
To: ISOC Chapter
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Subject: Internet Freedom

I
> understand there is a discussion on an initiative by France and Netherlands
> regarding discussing Freedom of Expression and the Internet. And I am asked to
> explain a bit on what is going on.

This is just one of several things that is
> related to HR issues. It all started maybe a year or two ago, and it was
> brought up for example at the IGF in Hyderabad 2008, and specifically during
> the Swedish Presidency of the EU (and of course at the IGF in Sharm 2009).The
> main initiatives at the moment that I know about is the meeting France and
> Netherlands in Paris next week (with a quite detailed agenda, with four major
> points on it -- if I remember correctly). And an initiative by the UN
> Rapporteur on Human Rights, Frank de la Rue, that the Swedish Government
> Foreign Ministry is supporting.

There might be more initiatives similar to
> these. And specifically I know of course many people use the terms "Human
> Rights" and "Freedom of Expression" in many Internet related discussions where
> blocking, filtering and/or non-harmonization of rules and regulation pops
> up.  

Patrik
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