[Chapter-delegates] FYI - ISOC statement about on Internet blocking measures in Catalonia, Spain

Tue Sep 26 01:53:59 PDT 2017

Dear Magi,

I have experienced similar situation in June, 1991 in Slovenian during 
the process of independence.
All was very bad, the Yugoslav Army has rocketed the main communication 
nodes at the mountain
Krvavec that connected our IXI line (where IP was encapsulated) to 
Vienna IXI node. So, the Internet
(and X.400 services out of the country)  was not available for more than 
24 hours.

Thanks to experienced experts that went the very some day to the 
mountain the line was set up after 24 hours.
As a responsible person for this line I  got a  phone call from IXI 
management centre in Hague that our line is
not working. They asked "Are fighting there?" and of course my answer 
was not yet.

This line become the most powerful communication line for Slovenian 
government in informing the free world
what is happening in Slovenia that days. We all (academics) sent 
thousand of mails to our colleagues in USA, so
the truth and the real situation come out very soon. Communication is 
very powerful tool to send information and
politics know that, that is why they block first the communication. The 
same happened in Egipt.

Regards,

Borka

Magí Lluch-Ariet je 26.9.2017 ob 10:31 napisal:
> Thanks Borka for your message.
>
> A couple of news explaining the censorship facts by Fundació .cat can 
> be found here: http://fundacio.cat/en/news
> The statement from ISOC Europe 
> <https://www.internetsociety.org/news/statements/2017/internet-society-statement-internet-blocking-measures-catalonia-spain/>.
> Statement at change.org <http://change.org> from the official IT 
> Societies with signatures request: 
> https://www.change.org/p/condemnation-of-spanish-government-actuations-on-1-o-and-protection-to-ict-professionists?utm_source=embedded_petition_view 
> <https://www.change.org/p/condemnation-of-spanish-government-actuations-on-1-o-and-protection-to-ict-professionists?utm_source=embedded_petition_view> 
>
>
> A local news agency: http://www.catalannews.com/
> Local newspapers: https://english.vilaweb.cat/ and http://www.ara.cat/en/
>
> Some international supports about the referendum
> http://www.letcatalansvote.org/en <http://www.letcatalansvote.org/en>
>
> These are the sites blocked when accessed from Catalonia or for those 
> under .cat with their content replaced by a policy note:
>
> www.referendum.cat <http://www.referendum.cat>
> www.ref1oct.eu <http://www.ref1oct.eu>
> https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQZzfs7LjkEnmG3zU92YF7ViCcuCXkNokuYoiNe6pKvDZ/ 
> <https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQZzfs7LjkEnmG3zU92YF7ViCcuCXkNokuYoiNe6pKvDZ/>
> https://cat.referendum.barcelona/ <https://cat.referendum.barcelona/>
> http://referendum.enricpineda.cat/ <http://referendum.enricpineda.cat/>
> http://www.referendum.party/
> http://www.referendum.ninja/
> http://www.referendum.love/
> http://www.referendum.legal/
> http://www.referendum.fyi/
> http://www.referendum.rip/
> http://www.referendum.soy/
> http://www.referendum.lol/
> http://www.referendum.voto/
> http://www.referendum.works/
> http://www.referendum.observer/ <http://www.referendum.observer/>
> http://www.referendum.fun/
> http://www.referendum.pro/
> http://alerta.cat/www.referendum.cat/ 
> <http://alerta.cat/www.referendum.cat/>
> http://referendum.pirata.cat
> http://referendum.pau.fm/
> http://www.referendumcat.eu/
> http://nigeon.github.io/referendum.cat/ 
> <http://nigeon.github.io/referendum.cat/>
> https://www.ref1oct.eu/
> https://www.ref1oct.cat/
> http://ref1oct.net/
> http://ref1oct.org/
> http://referendum.zalo.nyc/
> https://aniol.github.io/referendum.cat/ 
> <https://aniol.github.io/referendum.cat/>
> http://referendumcat.cat/
> https://holadictadura.github.io/referendum_catalunya/ 
> <https://holadictadura.github.io/referendum_catalunya/>
>
> For the sites hosted in Spain and under .cat TLD the police replaced 
> its content for the "legal notice". For those others hosted abroad 
> Spanish telecoms have been forced to block access to their users. This 
> affects users connecting through the main telecoms in Spain (not just 
> Catalonia).
>
> It's relevant to point out that the content of those sites comes from 
> the Catalan Government and not from a criminal organization and is 
> about promotion and organisation of the referendum.
>
> Yesterday night the list grew with new sites closed directly by the 
> Spanish police without explicit request from any judge and created not 
> by the Catalan Government, but for independent private institutions. 
> This one: empaperem.cat <http://empaperem.cat> was asking people to 
> hold posters about the referendum in the streets (banned), another one 
> vullvotar.cat <http://vullvotar.cat> defending the right of people to 
> vote and the most relevant one: assemblea.cat <http://assemblea.cat> 
> from the association that co-organised the huge demonstrations during 
> the last years. This one has rapidly replicated at assemblea.eu 
> <http://assemblea.eu> (still accessible, but it will likely be blocked 
> in a few hours time).
>
> Warmest regards
>
> 2017-09-26 10:20 GMT+02:00 Borka Jerman Blazic <borka at e5.ijs.si 
> <mailto:borka at e5.ijs.si>>:
>
>     I think that in the world were Human rights have the highest
>     value  as is claimed for EU (and Spain is
>     an EU MS) the only cases when internet  site/content blocking is
>     tolerated is the hate speech that includes racism, terrorism,
>     criminal matters, offence, insult to, human and arms smuggling,  
>     or  similar content.
>
>     I believe that nothing similar was found in the Catalonian sites
>     that were blocked.
>     Catalonia is a part of Spain and the population there can decide
>     about their own referendum, so
>     it is difficult this to be considered as "illegal". It is people
>     voice.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Borka
>
>
>
> -- 
> Magí Lluch-Ariet

-- 
Prof.dr.Borka Jerman-Blažič Head, Laboratory for Open systems and 
Networks Jožef Stefan Institute and Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana 
University Slovenia tel. +386 1 477 3408 tel. +386 1 477 3756 mob. +386 
41 678 410
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