Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
Hi Christian, not sure why you label them as neoliberal declarations. I saw many and knowing some of their authors I doubt that they are defending such point of views. you can find here a longer list and comparison http://bestbits.net/issue-comparison-of-major-declarations-on-internet-freedom/ I think that Council of Europe expert working group worked on compendium and found more around 25 declarations. Best, Rafik 2014-04-04 3:36 GMT+09:00 Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.at: Thanks for the collection. On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corporate domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such control... Cheers, CF On 03/04/2014 19:27, Jillian C. York wrote: Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See: 1994: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html 1996: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 2001: http://www.cato.org/publications/techknowledge/ libertarian-vision-telecom-hightechnology 2009: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/ 2012: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ 2012: http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/ 2013: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236603/A_Declaration_of_the_ Interdependence_of_Cyberspace On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.at mailto:christian.fu...@uti.at wrote: The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___ Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.__info/ http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/__transformeurope/feed https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed --- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___ Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications
[liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed --- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications corporations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, Yahoo!, Aol as well as private security firms. We express our solidarity and support to whistle-blowers, journalists and organisations, including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian and others, for their efforts towards fostering transparency and public accountability. We denounce their oppression and prosecution that we consider as a major threat to freedom of information. We observe a great paradox of the media in the 21st century: although more people than ever have the means to express themselves freely, there are huge power asymmetries that favour corporate and state control of the media: journalists in Europe and many other regions face an alarming increase in violent attacks, intimidation, legal threats and other restrictions on their work. Among the important factors of this paradox are the growth of anti-terrorism laws and new nationalisms, the fusion of political, economic and media power, and the weakening of the authority of critical and high-quality media, including independent media, investigative journalism and public service media. Furthermore, the Internet and social media are largely controlled by corporations and there is not enough material support for alternative Internet and media projects. This mix seems to represent an existential challenge to critical media, independent journalism and to the established framework of international laws and safeguards for press freedom and the freedoms of expression, speech, information and opinion. We point out that the current crisis and austerity policies have a serious negative effect on important democratic freedoms. The official political reactions to the crisis have given grounds for the further centralisation of corporate, state and media power that undermine the freedom of information and further the prosecutions of citizens, activists, journalists and the media. We particularly condemn attempts to limit or close down critical, independent and public service media. The Greek government’s closure of the public service broadcaster ERT is in this respect a particularly alarming development. We stress that under the conditions of corporatisation and bureaucratisation, the
Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See: 1994: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html 1996: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 2001: http://www.cato.org/publications/techknowledge/libertarian-vision-telecom-hightechnology 2009: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/ 2012: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ 2012: http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/ 2013: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236603/A_Declaration_of_the_Interdependence_of_Cyberspace On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.atwrote: The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed --- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications corporations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, Yahoo!, Aol as well as private security firms. We express our solidarity and support to whistle-blowers, journalists and organisations, including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian and others, for their efforts towards fostering transparency and public accountability. We denounce their oppression and prosecution that we consider as a major threat to freedom of information. We observe a great paradox of the media in the 21st century: although more people than ever have the means to express themselves freely, there are huge power asymmetries that favour corporate and state control of the media: journalists in Europe and many other regions face an alarming increase in violent attacks, intimidation, legal threats and other restrictions on their work. Among the important factors of this paradox are the growth of anti-terrorism laws and new nationalisms, the fusion of political, economic and media power, and the weakening of the authority of critical and high-quality media, including independent media, investigative journalism and public service media. Furthermore, the Internet and social media are largely controlled by corporations and there is not enough material support for alternative Internet and media projects. This mix seems to represent an existential challenge to critical media, independent journalism and to the established framework of international laws and safeguards
Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
Thanks for the collection. On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corporate domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such control... Cheers, CF On 03/04/2014 19:27, Jillian C. York wrote: Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See: 1994: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html 1996: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 2001: http://www.cato.org/publications/techknowledge/libertarian-vision-telecom-hightechnology 2009: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/ 2012: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ 2012: http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/ 2013: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236603/A_Declaration_of_the_Interdependence_of_Cyberspace On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.at mailto:christian.fu...@uti.at wrote: The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.__info/ http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/__transformeurope/feed https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed --- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications corporations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, Yahoo!, Aol as well as private security firms. We express our solidarity and support to whistle-blowers, journalists and organisations, including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian and others, for their efforts towards fostering transparency and public accountability. We denounce their oppression and prosecution that we consider as a major threat to freedom of information. We observe a great paradox of the media
Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
On 04/03/2014 03:36 PM, Christian Fuchs wrote: Thanks for the collection. *** Indeed, thanks a lot. On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. *** Indeed, and that's part of the problem of unity through diversity. There's no single source of knowledge, and it's hard to keep track of everything, let alone read or agree to everything. On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corporate domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such control... *** Seconded. There's an awful lot of literature referring to The Future, as if the godlike position of the objective observer had not been shattered by the General Relativity more than a Century ago. Yet, we can read in all corporate media that we'd better get used to technology as it happens faster than we can think about it, it's unstoppable, and There Is No Alternative, etc. Well sorry, technology is not an object, and less of a commodity. It's part of humanity, and its neutrality is entirely illusory and propagandist. Instead it's highly political and ethical, and the neoliberal version of it all is not only a ridiculous fraction of humanity's timeline, it's also one of the most reactionary, suicidal, and irrational of all. But that's my opinion. That unique vision of technological-progress-through-free-markets became so pervasive and undisputed that even a supposedly radically emancipatory and anti-capitalist project such as the FLOK Society in Ecuador promotes a confusing discourse where Ecuadorians express the social knowledge economy in terms of victimization of their own culture having been deprived of access to Occidental knowledge and must get out of mediocrity. The absolute colonization of the technophile human thought perspires through all its pores. It's unthinkable nowadays to criticize the Californian ideology without being pointed at as a luddite or an anti-American or as a technophobe. Well, that's it. I needed to vent it out. == hk P.S.: the Avaaz site is not Tor-friendly or there's a growing number of Tor exit nodes abused so that webmasters will block them. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.atwrote: Thanks for the collection. On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. I agree with you, but given that yours is posted as an Avaaz petition, it is obviously meant to face the public...and I think that we're far better off working together on public education then confusing them through multiple initiatives. On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corporate domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such control... Well, there we agree :) Cheers, CF On 03/04/2014 19:27, Jillian C. York wrote: Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See: 1994: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html 1996: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 2001: http://www.cato.org/publications/techknowledge/ libertarian-vision-telecom-hightechnology 2009: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/ 2012: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ 2012: http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/ 2013: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236603/A_Declaration_of_the_ Interdependence_of_Cyberspace On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Christian Fuchs christian.fu...@uti.at mailto:christian.fu...@uti.at wrote: The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___ Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.__info/ http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/__transformeurope/feed https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed --- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/__petition/The_2014_Vienna___ Declaration_on_Freedom_of___Information_and_Expression___Petition/ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_ Declaration_on_Freedom_of_Information_and_Expression_Petition/ We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications corporations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, Yahoo!, Aol as well as private security firms. We express our
