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

Sun May 20 11:49:46 PDT 2012

Joly,

a government order to ISPs to block something sounds like a ZSDOS, a Zero-Sofistication Denial of Service. Question for your concern about DNSSEC (which I find of second order of importance, but of course valid) will be how the ISPs obey the order and for that, how eagerly they exert efforts to comply with it.

BTW BytesForAll is already providing some advice for circumventing the blockade; I don't know that this in turn won't cause more active policing against TOR and other measures.

In parallel, the discussions of the Internet Governance Caucus have turned to this issue. They were concerned with the new incarnation of the IBSA proposal, the proposal now called CIRP, pushed by the government of India, to which Sivasubramanian Muthusamy has already referred in this list.

The Twitter filtering in Pakistan puts the CIPR model to one more test and, IMO, it should have to be the final blow, as I don't think anyone believes that an organism like that would agree to force all member governments, and in consequence all governments, to Internet freedoms like not filtering a communication tool like Twitter in such a blunt way for a whole country.

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Enviado el: domingo, 20 de mayo de 2012 10:05
Hasta: President ISOC Cambodia
CC: Asia-Pacific Chapters; Chapter Delegates
Asunto: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Twitter officially banned in Pakistan - more to follow

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<mailto: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<http://LINKEDIN.COM>

--
Norbert Klein, President, ISOC Cambodia Chapter

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