  Not only has the organization just recently allowed Saudi Arabia to head an advisory UN human rights panel, which is insane, given the human right breaches in the country, but of course, to gain full control, the World Wide Web has to be under strict supervision. Free speech cannot be allowed. To do it, the UN uses women's rights as an excuse. Pretty hilarious really given the above appointment, where Saudi women are not even allowed to drive a car. Excerpt from the Washington Post: On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before. But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work. Under U.S. law — the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the world’s largest online platforms — intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally can’t be held responsible for what people do on them. But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only “license” those who agree to do so. “The respect for and security of girls and women must at all times be front and center,” the report reads, not only for those “producing and providing the content,” but also everyone with any role in shaping the “technical backbone and enabling environment of our digital society.” How that would actually work, we don’t know; the report is light on concrete, actionable policy. But it repeatedly suggests both that social networks need to opt-in to stronger anti-harassment regimes and that governments need to enforce them proactively. At one point toward the end of the paper, the U.N. panel concludes that “political and governmental bodies need to use their licensing prerogative” to better protect human and women’s rights, only granting licenses to “those Telecoms and search engines” that “supervise content and its dissemination.” In other words, the United Nations believes that online platforms should be (a) generally responsible for the actions of their users and (b) specifically responsible for making sure those people aren’t harassers. Regardless of whether you think those are worthwhile ends, the implications are huge: It’s an attempt to transform the Web from a libertarian free-for-all to some kind of enforced social commons. This question, of course, mirrors other, larger debates playing out across the culture, including tiffs over academic “trigger warnings” and debates about Reddit’s foggy future. Writing at Breitbart several weeks ago, the conservative columnist Allum Bokhari described a growing social movement that he dubs “cultural libertarianism”: the rejection of any and all limitations on absolute free expression. Already Germany has got accept from Facebook to censor immigration critical posts and comments - deemed "racist", and this is just the beginning. George Orwell was unfortunately a true visionary! Related: German minister demands censorship on Facebook Stasi veteran to manage censorship on Facebook Scandalous: Saudi Arabia chosen to head key UN human rights panel UN: - EU must destroy homogeneity of member states through immigration |
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Monday, September 28, 2015
''1984'' is fast approaching - UN to censor the Internet
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