roundtable: Internet junta proposed (fwd)

roundtable: Internet junta proposed (fwd)

Internet junta proposed (fwd)

Richard K. Moore (rkmoore@iol.ie)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:44:37 +0100 

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:44:37 +0100
Message-Id: <v02110101b04289d0cb49@[194.125.43.165]>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore)
Subject: Internet junta proposed (fwd)


Dear roundtable,

The industry, the WTO, and the G7 - the ideal crew to engineer the
demise of the open Internet and manage the commercial monopolization of
cyberspace.  These are the same well-organized and highly motivated
bunch who brought us the WIPO copyright treaty, which among other things
would make me liable for significant jail time for this forward. 

This might well be taken as fair warning of the final, big-guns assault,
and may peraps finally alert netizens to the fact that "deregulation" is
a code word not for reducing controls, but simply for shifting the
rule-making to purely corporate hands. 

Use it or lose it.


rkm

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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997
From: Radar <nurev@Kreative.net>

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From:   mmoxley@foto.infi.net (Mike Moxley)
Date: 97-09-14 01:55:54 EDT

EU commissioner proposes global Internet charter

BRUSSELS (Reuter) -- The European Union's top telecommunications
official called Monday for an international charter to regulate the
Internet and other electronic networks.

EU Commissioner Martin Bangemann, in a speech prepared for a
telecommunications conference in Geneva, said the charter should
deal with questions such as technical standards, illegal content,
licenses, encryption and data privacy.

"The current situation may lead to the adoption of isolated global
rules with different countries signing up to different rules agreed
under the auspices of different international organizations," the
German commissioner said.

"An international charter would provide a suitable answer."

The text of the speech was distributed in Brussels.

Bangemann said industry should lead the effort to draw up a
charter, which would be based mostly on self-regulation and mutual
recognition of national licenses.

"Its role would not be to impose detailed rules, except in
particular circumstances (child pornography, terrorist networks),"
he said.

The charter would recognize existing pacts negotiated within the
World Trade Organization and World Intellectual Property
Organization and draw on principles agreed by other bodies such as
the Group of Seven top industrial countries, he said.

Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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Well here we go !

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