Bienvenue à l’e-G8, le Davos du web La grand messe d'Internet voulue par Nicolas Sarkozy se tient jusqu'à ce mercredi à Paris, avant le G8 de Deauville. Et la couleur industrielle de l'événement en effraie certains. Explications, avec des vrais morceaux de Maurice Lévy dedans. De la même manière que Cannes donne envie aux gens de faire des films, l’e-G8 doit être une vitrine du web. Dans la bouche de Maurice Lévy, puissant patron du groupe de communication Publicis et président de ce pré-sommet consacré aux questions numériques, cette phrase résonne comme un slogan publicitaire à destination des jeunes entrepreneurs. Pendant deux jours, les 24 et 25 mai, le jardin des Tuileries va se transformer en FIAC de l’Internet, à l’initiative de Nicolas Sarkozy. Car si l’item tarte à la crème ”Internet et la société” (avec la brochette Groupon, Orange, Facebook, le World Economic Forum et Wikipedia) est bien au programme de l’eG8, l’événement reste trusté par des problématiques au registre beaucoup plus industriel.
Online censorship hurts us all | Technology Artists have lots of problems. We get plagiarised, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited — and we even get our works copied by "pirates" who give our stuff away for free online. But no matter how bad these problems get, they're a distant second to the gravest, most terrifying problem an artist can face: censorship. It's one thing to be denied your credit or compensation, but it's another thing entirely to have your work suppressed, burned or banned. Since 1995, every single legislative initiative on this subject in the UK's parliament, the European parliament and the US Congress has focused on making it easier to suppress "illegitimate" material online. And that's the rub. Take the US's 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which has equivalents in every European state that has implemented the 2001 European Union Copyright Directive. But takedown notices are just the start. This notion is impractical in the extreme, for at least two reasons.
Article 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (not to be confused with the Internet itself, which is the core network developed many years earlier), its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Below you will find the most controversial ones. 10. The rundown Pakistan started censoring the web in 2000, when the main target was anti-Islamic content. How does the censorship work? There are only three international gateways on the country, and all of them are controlled by the Pakistan Telecommunication Company. Internet service providers are also required by law to monitor the activity of their clients to make sure that they are not accessing prohibited websites. What kind of content is blocked? 9. 8.
Traffic – Google Transparency Report Пользователи из более чем 30 стран не могли получить доступ к продуктам и сервисам Google. Такие перерывы в работе могут быть вызваны разными причинами: от системных сбоев до блокирования по распоряжению государственных органов. Все текущие и зарегистрированные сбои приведены ниже. Список не является исчерпывающим. Подробнее... YouTube С 13 июня 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 51 день Все продукты С 31 мая 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 63 дня Сайты Google С 11 октября 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1756 дней Google Sites inaccessible. YouTube С 23 марта 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1959 дней Сайты Google С 7 апреля 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 118 дней Google Sites partially accessible YouTube С 13 июня 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1877 дней YouTube С 17 сентября 2012 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 685 дней Сайты Google С 24 июня 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1866 дней
FreedomInfo | France: sauvons internet 0 ont signé la pétition. Ensemble allons jusqu'à 200 000 Publié le 29 Juin 2011Le gouvernement Sarkozy veut censurer internet par un décret qui pourrait bloquer des sites et pages de recherche que nous utilisons tous les jours. Mais un tollé national peut stopper cet assaut contre la liberté d'expression. Ce nouveau décret permettrait aux ministres de retirer tout contenu internet menaçant selon eux "l'ordre public", sans passer par un juge. Le Président Sarkozy a montré au sommet du G8 qu'il soigne son image de dirigeant moderne et de partisan d'internet. Cliquez ici pour signer la pétition! Dans le droit français, les contenus dit "manifestement illicites" comme la pédopornographie peuvent déjà être retirés sans contrôle judiciaire. L'ONU estime que les mesures de filtrage sont excessives et inefficaces et vient de condamner les lois françaises sur l'internet. Nous savons que le Président Sarkozy souhaite apparaître comme un ami de l'internet.
UN report: "three strikes" Internet laws violate human rights China's not the only Internet bad boy; a new UN report (PDF) calls out even developed democracies for slapping restrictions on the Internet. An official appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a new report on the state of online free speech around the world. In addition to calling attention to long-standing censorship problems in China, Iran, and other oppressive regimes, the report devotes a surprising amount of attention to speech restrictions in the developed world—and it singles out recently enacted "three strikes" laws in France and the United Kingdom that boot users off the Internet for repeated copyright infringement. Dragging ISPs into the fight The report was written by Frank La Rue, whose official title is "Special Rapporteur." He's an independent investigator appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to study and report on free speech abuses around the world. Obviously, this has big implications for the contemporary copyright debate. Strikeout
EDRI | Digital Civil Rights in Europe Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers Tell Congress to Kill COICA 2.0, the Internet Censorship Bill UPDATE: Great news. "If there is a law that requires DNSs, to do X and it's passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president of the United States and we disagree with it then we would still fight it," he said, according to the report. Big content is irate. ORIGINAL: We knew that members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to be this atrocious. Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they revised the bill. Furthermore, it wouldn't just be the Attorney General who could add sites to the blacklist, but the new bill would allow any copyright holder to get sites blacklisted -- sure to result in an explosion of dubious and confused orders.
The Debate Over Internet Governance: Introduction Welcome to the Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000 This website was prepared as a final project for the course Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control at Harvard Law School. This site aims to do that which might seem impossible in a medium that changes so quickly and so dramatically to freeze a particular moment in the debate over internet governance. [Note: as of May 2005, the legal landscape has continued to change. Here is a link with more recent information about internet governance] The moment we seek to capture here is no ordinary moment in the development of the internet. At some level, even those most wary of formal governance for the internet recognize the need for central administration of some of the internets technical aspects. The creation of the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers known widely as ICANN in November 1998 has given the debate on internet governance a new focus. On November 25, 1998, the U.S.