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UN Council: Seriously, Nations, Stop Switching Off the Internet! (article19.org)
An anonymous reader writes:
"The United Nations officially condemned the practice of countries shutting down access to the internet at a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Friday," reports the Register newspaper, saying Friday's resolution "effectively extends human rights held offline to the internet," including freedom of expression. "The resolution is a much-needed response to increased pressure on freedom of expression online in all parts of the world," said Thomas Hughes, Executive Director of Article 19, a long-standing British human rights group which had pushed for the resolution. "From impunity for the killings of bloggers to laws criminalizing legitimate dissent on social media, basic human rights principles are being disregarded to impose greater controls over the information we see and share online."
Thirteen countries, including Russia and China, had unsuccessfully urged the deletion of the text guaranteeing internet access, and Article 19 says the new resolution even commits states to address "security concerns on the Internet in accordance with their obligations to protect freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights online." But they also called the resolution a missed opportunity to urge states to strengthen protections on anonymity and encryption, and to clarify the boundaries between state and private ICT actors.
Thirteen countries, including Russia and China, had unsuccessfully urged the deletion of the text guaranteeing internet access, and Article 19 says the new resolution even commits states to address "security concerns on the Internet in accordance with their obligations to protect freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights online." But they also called the resolution a missed opportunity to urge states to strengthen protections on anonymity and encryption, and to clarify the boundaries between state and private ICT actors.
Yeah, 'cause the UN is such a small organization it can only handle one topic at a time.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If your article has a cute title, I instantly lose respect for everyone involved. Be professional if you want to be taken seriously.
as a Gartner analyst wrote, there is no equivalent concept of "privacy" in the Chinese language.
Then what does yinsi mean?
Yes you are. You have a clear opportunity to communicate what you want or expect when you can actually express it via communication (language). When you cannot express it, you are frustrated endlessly by an inability to communicate.
It seems to me that the UN Human Rights Council doesn't grasp that as long as people are dependant on others, there will always be someone subjegating people. As people become more dependant on others, the centralized power becomes because if the government can control XYZ then they can cause societies to grind to a halt. If they really want to improve the situation of all people then they should be pushing projects that could give people the ability to be autonomous through technology. Governments are terrified of a lack of centralized control because then the people can tell their governments to fuck off. If you want people to be free of tyrants then they have to obtain freedom to go it alone.
What people need are automated and decentralized manufacturing and agriculture to create a post-scarcity economy.
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