Re: [soac-mapo] Background info?
Thanks, Evan. I find these resources very helpful and support the notion that we should take into account what is actually happening to defend sensitivities in our deliberations. Best, Robin On Aug 26, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote: Hello all,I'm not totally sure that the posting of background information or relevant news stories here is welcomed or frowned upon, but to me it may help with the discussion to know what is already happening.By this I mean the existing practices of governments using Internet infrastructure to block access to sites with objectionable content based on names or IP addresses. For example there is this article from The Economist on such blocking efforts in Russia and this report from the OpenNet Initiative on a variety of blocking tactics in place in the United Arab Emirates -- some of which block based on TLD.Is it of value to this group to attempt to collect such information? To me, we can't ignore what's already being done in the real world, and any efforts we make will need to complement -- or at least recognize -- existing practice. Trying to dismiss, ignore or regulate existing government action seems pointless and indeed counter-productive. It's clear that measures by national governments to filter/ban domains with objectionable content already exist, and it's important to our efforts (IMO) to determine how our proposals here will actually affect such efforts without doing damage to other policy priorities.Of course, if there is a consensus that such news items and background info will not help, I'll stop sending them. I have no intention to be disruptive.- Evan IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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