First 5 Steps Authoritarian Gov't Regulate Internet
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The document outlines 5 steps that authoritarian governments take to regulate the internet: 1. Declare the internet a telecommunication service to bring it under government control. 2. Cite protecting children, religion or morality as reasons to fight terrorism and extremism online. 3. Give the government the right to interfere with internet protocols and control resource allocation and relations between providers. 4. Require compulsory user registration by methods like SMS to identify commentators. 5. Give the state power to define "illegal" content and ban apps, services and protocols like Telegram, LinkedIn and Yandex. It then asks questions about limitations faced in regulating the internet, how civil society should respond,
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First 5 Steps Authoritarian Gov't Regulate Internet
- 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?