[Chapter-delegates] Egypt blocking Facebook & Twitter

[Patrick Vande Walle]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:16:10 +1200 (FJT), Franck Martin wrote: 

>
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

How
sad and ironic is such a situation. I remember the Egyptian minister of
telecoms, and former VP of chapters of ISOC, Tarek Kamel explaining to
the audience at the ICANN meeting in Cairo how open the country's
Internet was. 

What could be the attitude of the I* community ? We have
a track record showing complacency towards authoritarian regimes
censoring the Internet. ICANN went to Tunisia, Egypt and China. The IETF
went to China. WSIS went to Tunisia, where the I* community
participated. Is the perspective of a paid-for meeting enough to have us
accept such invitations and be used by the government propaganda as a
example of their openess ? 

When the I* community mentions "openess",
it sounds like we mean "open your networks and your economy, but we
don't want to know about the openess of your firewall". 

Patrick Vande
Walle 

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