[Chapter-delegates] How to be fast? (was Re: Twitter officially banned in Pakistan - more to follow)

[Barrack Otieno]

Eric,

We have to be careful on how we engage on matters of sovereignity lest we
have the very chapters banned in concerned countries. What we can do as the
ISOC community i to share with our colleagues in concerned countries how
they can engage the respective authorities amicably with a view to finding
solutions. Engagement is key in such scenarios but i don't support blanket
issuance of statements.

Best Regards

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Eric Burger <eburger at standardstrack.com>wrote:

> One of the perennial complaints about ISOC is we are very slow to respond
> tactically to events.
>
> One of the perennial values the community has is ISOC is very deliberate
> and thorough about collecting the whole story, putting together a technical
> and policy response, and (usually) getting community feedback on the
> response before releasing the message.
>
> If we did not value community feedback, it would be trivial for ISOC to
> respond to such incidents as the Pakistani twitter cutoff and Egyptian
> Internet isolation. Staff could make statements whenever they see the need.
> Dictatorships are so very efficient. If we went this route, we would most
> likely give up on our reputation of being thoughtful and balanced.
>
> Any thoughts from the community on how we can be more responsive, yet keep
> true to our values?
> --
> - Eric
>
> On May 20, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> 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 toTwitter.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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