[Chapter-delegates] New York Times editorial on Free Speech and the Internet

[Joly MacFie]

Today, July 4, Independence Day in the USA , the New York Times has chosen
to speak out on the independence of the Internet in an editorial entitled
Free Speech and the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/opinion/04mon3.html

Endorsing the recent UN rapporteur's report <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=2137>,
and noting heavy handed moves like Chinese censorship,  Italy's defamation
case, data retention in Brazil,  three-strikes laws, the United States'
dubiously legitimate domain seizures, and the importance of anonymity, the
Times concludes:

The U.N. has proposed sound guidelines to defend free expression: censorship
> of content online must be transparent and enforced only through the courts.
> Governments should not rely on private entities like service providers to
> censor content and should not hold them liable for user content.
> Counterterrorism should not be an excuse to bar expression, unless it is to
> prevent imminent threats.
>


> With few exceptions, governments should not adopt Internet registries that
> require users to reveal their identities. And defamation — so often used as
> a legal tool to repress political speech — should be decriminalized.
> Finally, nobody should be banned from the Internet. It is a fundamental tool
> for enabling free speech.


http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=2286
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