US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Rudi Rusdiah]

On 12/15/2012 11:44 PM, Baudouin SCHOMBE wrote:
> I have a feeling that this is a trap.
>
> Baudouin
dear Baudouin ... could you explain ... a trap for what and who made the
trap according to you  ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-Discuss
> Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet
> treaty
>
> Thanks Marc. Couldn't agree more.
>
> Amr
>
> On Dec 15, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>> My problem is that no matter how benign a treaty might sound in the
> beginning it would lead to the creation of an infrastructure to allow
> enforcement. Once you have an international infrastructure of control who is
> to say the rules might change? So something might start out as the society
> for the protection of cute kittens organizing to stop child porn and end up
> with the thought police installing chips in your brain.
>> And you can imagine where this would go when it comes to "religiously
> offensive" materials sent across the internet. There are many countries
> where not believing in God caries the death penalty, as well as believing in
> God the wrong way. I can imagine what would happen between Christians and
> Muslims on an Internet with a central control infrastructure. There was a
> story recently where a man who was a non-believer determined that a crying
> statue of the Virgin Mary was caused by a leaky sewer pipe and he's being
> prosecuted for it. Imagine what a threat it would be to realists if those
> views could be enforced across international borders.
>> And what about uprisings? The Arab Spring was organized online. Would we
> be obligated to censor the cries of the oppressed and tortured because of
> treaty obligations of the oppressing country?
>> The bottom line for me is that some criminality is the price we pay for
> freedom and it's worth it. Once you put in an infrastructure to stop the bad
> guys then that infrastructure can, and most certainly will, be used against
> the rest of us. So I support our resistance to any treaty or domestic law to
> centrally control the internet.
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