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UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance
- renholder 8y agoI have to concur that Agenda Item 109[1] (Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes), is vague as feck. I'm looking forward to the report from the Secretary-General, to get a better understanding on the scope of their intent: Unlawful as per the UN or unlawful as per the member nations. [1] - http://undocs.org/A/C.3/73/L.9/Rev.1 http://undocs.org/A/C.3/73/L.9/Rev.1
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- sbov 8y agoInterestingly, from the article too: > Opposition to the resolution came mainly from Australia, Canada, the European Union and the US.
- Fellshard 8y agoVague is the name of the UN game.
- lstodd 8y agoWhat does "unlawful per UN" mean?
- reaperducer 8y agoIt means if there’s a violation, a bunch of bureaucrats and guys in blue helmets show up and form committees to decide what color paper should be used to send a very strongly worded letter.
- nkkollaw 8y agoThis makes me very scared. If the quality of initiatives is as bad as the compat for migration, we're pretty much fucked.
- sphinxpy 8y agoThe future looks more and more bleak as more and more authoritarianism is applied to technology which is supposed to be, to many, as a frontier of freedom.
- nkkollaw 8y agoAbsolutely agree. The most probable thing to me is that we'll sooner or later have it as bad a what's currently happening in China: spying via heavy use of face recognition, pre-crime, citizen score, etc. etc. It doesn't look like people are alert/tough enough to hold on to freedom, governments will continue to slowly take it away from us until we have none.
- petre 8y agoThe Internet is really a tool. It can be used to track people, spy on them, censor free speech, spread propaganda and fake news or to organise protests like the yellow vest movement in France, which reminds me of the French Revolution and another tool, the printing press.
- alacombe 8y agoThese are just tools, the real problem is the complacent, worse... cooperating population.
- jstanley 8y agoThere are 2 conflicting forces at work. On the one hand you have politics trying to take control of the internet, monitor everything, and censor what they don't like. On the other hand you have people developing decentralised, anonymous, and censorship-resistant technology like Tor and IPFS. The more work politics puts in to trying to control the internet, the more incentive there is to develop tools to work around politics. Politics has the force of law behind it, cryptography has irrefutable mathematics. Let's see who wins.
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- Postosuchus 8y agoJust lovely - that's exactly what world needs: a bunch of countries that can barely run themselves, let alone innovate, making decisions on policing innovation and going for virtual land grab! The only hopeful thing is - it's UN, the biggest bureaucracy in the world! It will take them 3 years just to duke out the name of the Committee and the titles of the bigwigs on it.
- arduanika 8y agoI was told the ICANN handover was merely a formality?
- mensetmanusman 8y agoThe west shouldn’t adopt anything to do with internet governance if China is on any of the committees. China made their own version of the internet to imprision their citizen’s communication; let the rest of the world manage the real internet.
- asabjorn 8y agoHuman rights was originally conceived of as negative rights, e.g. you have the right to pursue happiness in the same way as I do. Negative rights is a sign of freedom, and positive rights are a sign of the opposite because they infringe upon others freedom by obligating them to fulfill your rights. The UN has expanded this greatly to positive rights where someone can obligate someone to do something as a right, e.g. you have no right to offend my beliefs. In general this development is a step towards more centralization, and it is a sign of the central weakness of any centralized system which is that its limited in what it can express by the biological limitations of people that run it.
- mistrial9 8y ago.. if you want to convince people of this, I suggest you review your use of 'positive' and 'negative' .. anyway, its not nearly as clear cut as you make it out there.
- asabjorn 8y agoThe way I describe it is conformant with the official definition of positive and negative rights: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
- simula67 8y ago> Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance What about communism ?
- rdxm 8y agothe UN still exists?