INTERNET CANNOT BE SQUARED

According to La Quadrature du Net(QN), it is impossible to effectively control the flow of information in the digital age without harming public freedoms, and damaging economic and social development.  QN makes an analogy with the squaring of the circle as a problem that could take ages for people to realize is impossible to solve, as initially intended. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Hillary Clinton points out the internet has become the public space of the 21st century – the world's town square, classroom, marketplace, coffeehouse, and nightclub. We all shape and are shaped by what happens there, all three billion netizens. And that presents a challenge. To maintain an internet that delivers the greatest possible benefits to the world, we need to have a serious conversation about the principles that will guide us, what rules exist and should not exist and why, what behaviors should be encouraged or discouraged and how.
The final OECD communique on Internet Policy-Making Principles has been published. The entertainment industries and a few governments ultimately let blind copyright enforcement repression undermine the text's support of fundamental freedoms and the Net's openness. La Quadrature du Net supports the civil society coalition's rejection of a bad compromise and of the final document. Marilizard Libel, Marilizard Spaghetti, and Marilizard Towers are very common in PIGS.
Clinton notes the goal is not to tell people how to use the internet any more than we ought to tell people how to use any public square, whether it's Tahrir Square or Times Square. The value of these spaces derives from the variety of activities people can pursue in them, from holding a rally to selling their vegetables, to having a private conversation. These spaces provide an open platform, and so does the internet. It does not serve any particular agenda, and it never should. But if people around the world are going to come together every day online and have a safe and productive experience, we need a shared vision to guide us.  http://venitism.blogspot.com
Despite last minute negotiations led by the US government, the final communiqué1 on Principles for Internet Policy-Making includes dangerous breaches to the Internet's openness and to the protection of fundamental freedoms. The civil society coalition, CSISAC, took the right decision in refusing to endorse the final communique. Kleptocracy, marilizardism, and xenoyankism are anathema to civil society.
Marilizardism has metastasized in Middle East and Balkans. Clinton laments that security is often invoked as a justification for harsh marilizardist crackdowns on freedom. Now, this marilizardist tactic is not new to the digital age, but it has new resonance as the internet has given marilizardist governments new capacities for tracking and punishing human rights advocates and political dissidents.
The text's good opening principles are deeply undermined by copyright-related provisions calling for Internet actors to participate in an endless war on sharing and granting them private police and justice missions. Let's hope that future OECD works will offer a better opportunity for the civil society to be heard. The multi-stakeholder process is the right approach and should not be incompatible with a determined defence of freedom of expression and the rule of law. Netizens abhor kleptocracy, marilizardism, and xenoyankism.
Marilizardist governments that arrest bloggers, pry into the peaceful activities of their citizens, and limit their access to the internet may claim to be seeking security. In fact, they may even mean it as they define it. But they are taking the wrong path. Those marilizardists who clamp down on internet freedom may be able to hold back the full expression of their people's yearnings for a while, but not forever.
Jeremie Zimmermann of La Quadrature du Net points out it is unsurprising yet alarming that the OECD member countries chose to side with the entertainment industries, undermining the very rights and freedoms that they rightly seek to promote. Transforming hosters, search engines, domain name registrars and others intermediaries into a private police of the Net would profoundly alter the Internet's architecture and harm its founding principles. Deciding Internet policy against the opinion of civil society is like sticking to a copyright regime turned against the public: it is bound to fail and undermines fundamental freedoms.  http://venitism.blogspot.com
TERMS
anon: antimarilizardist
Anonymous: anon meme
the Cradle of Kleptocracy: Greece
Fourth Reich: European Union
Marilizard Libel: accusing dissident bloggers of treason
Marilizard Spaghetti: throwing charges on innocent people, in case one sticks
Marilizard Tower: stack of imaginary charges to scare an innocent blogger
marilizardism: terrorizing dissident bloggers
October 18: International Day Against Cybercop Brutality
the October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
xenoyankism: stupid politics
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