[Chapter-delegates] Twitter officially banned in Pakistan - more to follow

[Joly MacFie]

Plenty of reaction on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23pakistan and
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23twitterban including proxy info

While ISOC might hesitate as a body to issue an immediate policy statement,
there is nothing to stop individual members or even chapters from joining
in the chorus of criticism.

My initiial response was to refer back to the ISOC statement issued at the
time of the Egyptian thing -  http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1712 but that
addresses specifically a general cutoff

One wonders how the ban is being enforced technically and  if it messes
with standards such as DNSSEC.

j


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM, President ISOC Cambodia <
president at isoc-kh.org> wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues,
>
> I got this text down here from Fouad Bajwa. As many of you know, Fouad
> Bajwa is a Member of a Global ISOC Facilities Committee and was recently
> also at the Geneva meetings.
>
> Does ISOC Global, or the affected Regional Bureaus, have any procedures or
> suggestions for such a case?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Norbert
>
>
> Twitter.com is used by the Civil Society and Citizens of Pakistan to
> express their personal thoughts and opinions and the total blanket
> shutdown of Twitter.com is a fundamental human right violation
> preventing Pakistani Citizens both online and offline to express
> themselves using the Internet through their personal computers and
> mobile phone devices. Authorities are restricting access to
> Twitter.com without consulting the citizens of Pakistan through
> multistakeholder processes.
>
> STILL TWEETING THROUGH LINKEDIN.COM
>
>
>
> --
> Norbert Klein, President, ISOC Cambodia Chapter
>
>  Website: http://www.isoc-kh.org
> eMail: president at isoc-kh.org
>
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