December 2010 Blog Posts (8)

Referring to the Brazilian "Marco Civil", especially to its sections 1 and 7:



"1. Liberdade, privacidade e direitos humanos

O uso da Internet deve guiar-se pelos princípios de liberdade de

expressão, de privacidade do indivíduo e de respeito aos direitos

humanos, reconhecendo-os como fundamentais para a preservação de uma

sociedade justa e democrática."



and



"7. Inimputabilidade da rede

O combate a ilícitos na rede deve atingir os… Continue

...influenced by leak liability. A theory or a prediction that may come to true?


Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/80481/game-changer

 

Its Christmas for some, Kwanza for others, and the list goes on. Religions and various spiritual persuasions talk of spreading the common good to mankind minus the evils. Internet Governance also talks of extracting

the negatives then share the common good from ICTs to develop mankind. There is

some commonality in these thematic approaches and yet I do not see religions

represented as a stakeholder in the IG Forums. I consider…

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http://en.rsf.org/news-media-and-websites-censored-15-12-2010,39040.html

Until wikileaks days, publicly admitted censorship was not that present in the west (while everyone who spent some time there could detect that some information were "omtted" if subject was on the verge of a local taboo). From the other point of net presence, one can detect censorship by geolocation even on…

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ICANN held its 39th public meeting in the sunny city of Cartagena De Indias, Colombia during Dec 5-10, 2010. The meeting held close to 1000 participants from 100+ countries from around the world. The meeting was held at the Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala…

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Internet was designed with nuclear war in mind. Live example is wikileaks resilience. Visual Map of Wikileaks Mirrors

Information of common importance gone into wild, with dedication to a cause, tends to survive pressure to be extinct. Wikileaks is not successfully silenced within US jurisdiction according to a fairly large number of mirrors hosted there. Additionally web is not only possible information…

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The 4^th EuroDIG will take place in Belgrade (30/31 May 2011) and the agenda of the meeting has started to be discussed.What issues are important to you? What topics should be mainstreamed on the next meeting? You now have the opportunity to take part on the agenda-setting of the EuroDIG…

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WikiLeaks is by now big time news event unfolding, creating all sorts of debate on information protection, governmental actions, various political comments, technological moves from hosting, domain companies, legal actions.... slowly galvanizing voices about free speech, security of information systems, violation of policies. We are obviously about to learn major lesson about information society and real powers in it.



Amid this front news, there is something more sinister lurking…

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