[Chapter-delegates] NY Times: O.E.C.D. Calls on Members to Defend Internet Freedoms

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/oecd-calls-on-members-to-defend-internet-freedoms.html


PARIS — As a rising tide of digital dissent raises alarms in many capitals
> around the world, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
> Development<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/organization_for_economic_cooperation_and_development/index.html?inline=nyt-org> on
> Tuesday called on member countries to “promote and protect the global free
> flow of information” online.



In Russia there were reports of a crackdown on Web-borne dissent before and
> after parliamentary elections this month. Russia was one of a number of
> countries that blocked the adoption of a U.S.-backed declaration of
> online freedoms<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/europe/a-proposal-for-freedoms-in-cyberspace-meets-resistance.html?ref=organizationforsecurityandcooperationineurope> this
> month at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
> Europe.
>


> Russian officials, along with those of some developing countries, have
> made no secret of their desire to regulate the Internet at an international
> level, under the auspices of the International Telecommunications Union, a
> United Nations agency. The O.E.C.D document, by contrast, endorses the
> existing, dispersed model of Internet governance, under which governments,
> business organizations and groups representing Internet users all have a
> say.



The move by the O.E.C.D. on Tuesday “validates, defends and promotes an
> Internet model that is not government led, but led by the technical
> community and the private sector,” said Markus Kummer, vice president for
> public policy at the Internet Society <http://www.isoc.org/> , whose
> members include technology companies and educational institutions. “I think
> it is timely to remember some basic cornerstones, when there is increased
> pressure on governments to get involved in a more hands-on way.”





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