Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2019 || IN WHOM WE TRUST || April 4-5, 2019 Gdańsk, Poland ||

1. The First 5 Steps for
Authoritarian Government
to Regulate The Internet
BINGO! F*CK YEA- Andrew Sushko - Human Constanta, Belarus
- Joanna Szymańska - Article 19, UK
- Alexander Isavnin - RosKomSvoboda, Russia

2. Step 0:
Declare the Internet “Plain Old
Telecommunication Service”
“...occupy train station, telegraph, Internet!”

3. Step 1:
Protect Children, Religion or
Morality, blah-blah-blah
fight “terrorism and extremism on the Internet”

4. Step 2:
Give government the right
to interfere protocols of the
Internet
plus resource allocation, and inter-operator relations

5. Step 3:
User’s identification
compulsory registration of commentators by SMS
or other means

6. Step 4:
Give right to define “illegal &
illicit” content to state entities
the more legal mess the better

7. Step 5:
Make usage of protocols
(apps, services) illegal
ban Telegram, LinkedIn, Yandex, your ass

8. EU scene
Do social media need
regulating?
do we need NetzDG like laws?

9. - Which limitations do you face in your own countries?
- How to respond to that limitation, what should be the
position of civil society?
- What are the hidden threats when introducing even a soft
regulation of the Internet?
- How to find a compromise and agree with different parties
- the state, business and NGOs?
- Which standards and norms should we focus on?
- New “digital rights” or human rights in digital era?