RES: [soac-mapo] Highly recommended reading

["Jaime Wagner - CGI" <jaime@xxxxxx>]

Evan,

 

Long but interesting reading. Thanks for pointing it.

 

As a Brazilian citizen and a private entrepreneur, I would just like to point 
to a possible misleading interpretation of data thrown out without proper 
knowledge of the details.

 

Brazil appears as the country with the greater number of content-removal 
requests to Google and YouTube. Unfortunately enough the chart caption reads 
“Government content-removal requests” as if these requests were the result of a 
discretionary act of a government agency or an arbitrary act of some police 
“authority”. Well, this is a lack of information. All these removal-requests 
are made by the proper judiciary authority “after” a formal judgment process 
demanded by an individual who feels his rights can be defended, even in this 
nobody’s land, given rules of cooperation between proper local authorities and 
the companies with a global Internet presence. Indeed, Google signed with 
Brazilian Senate such an agreement.

 

I think this is not an indication of lack of democracy in an underdeveloped 
society . Much to the contrary it indicates that Internet has entered the 
reality of Brazilians, permeating the society and its institutions: including 
legislative and judiciary.

 

Jaime Wagner
CGI (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil)
Representante dos Provedores de Acesso e Conteúdo
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De: owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx] Em nome de 
Evan Leibovitch
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2010 14:32
Para: soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx
Assunto: [soac-mapo] Highly recommended reading

 

The Economist's cover story this week is about the increasing fragmentation of 
the Internet.

ICANN and IDNs are described as one of the more positive forms of 
fragmentation, but most others are not.

This main headline story is very useful given our current work:
http://www.economist.com/node/16941635

- Evan