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

Sun May 20 12:14:29 PDT 2012

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

>  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.
>

In Pakistan, perhaps also in India, ISPs may not have the freedom to
overlook / protest a Government directive unless there is an overwhelming
pressure by the users on the ISPs to protest. I find it difficult to assume
that the ISPs find it convenient to comply with such Government directives.
Often the compliance arises out of an inability to protest.

Sivasubramanian M

>
>  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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>
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> *Desde:* chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [
> chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Joly MacFie [
> joly at punkcast.com]
> *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> 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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