{"id":12627,"date":"2015-09-26T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2015-09-26T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:26:51","slug":"the-un-releases-plan-to-push-for-worldwide-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12627","title":{"rendered":"The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so.<\/p>\n

In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now:<\/p>\n

The UN\u2019s \u201cSustainable Development Agenda\u201d is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Not a Joke \u2013 Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fresh off the scene from those two epic embarrassments, the UN now wants to tell governments of the world how to censor the internet. I wish I was kidding.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, the organization\u2019s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning \u201cworld-wide wake-up call\u201d on what it calls \u201ccyber VAWG,\u201d or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is \u201ca problem of pandemic proportion\u201d \u2014 which, nbd, we\u2019ve all heard before.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Under U.S. law \u2014 the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the world\u2019s largest online platforms \u2014 intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally can\u2019t be held responsible for what people do on them.But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post,\u00a0and that government agencies only \u201clicense\u201d those who agree to do so.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People are being harassed online, and the solution is to censor everything and license speech? Remarkable.<\/p>\n

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How that would actually work, we don\u2019t 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

At one point toward the end of the paper, the U.N. panel concludes that\u201cpolitical and governmental bodies need to use their licensing prerogative\u201d to better protect human and women\u2019s rights<\/strong>, only granting licenses to \u201cthose Telecoms and search engines\u201d that \u201csupervise content and its dissemination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship The United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so. In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now: The UN\u2019s \u201cSustainable Development Agenda\u201d is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud Not a Joke \u2013 Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,379,1339,4285,6174,1169,822,826],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-government","tag-internet","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-social-media","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}