[Chapter-delegates] Egypt blocking Facebook & Twitter

[Franck Martin]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/how_governments_can_flip_the_i.html 




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From: "Christian de Larrinaga" <cdel at firsthand.net> 
To: patrick at vande-walle.eu 
Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org 
Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 11:38:13 PM 
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Egypt blocking Facebook & Twitter 


The risk of engagement is misunderstanding 
Let's just hope that by disconnecting moderate communicators en masse it doesn't turn up the volume of others? 




Christian 










On 28 Jan 2011, at 08:13, Patrick Vande Walle wrote: 




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". 



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