[WSIS CS-Plenary] ALERT: new "terrorist" paragraph 50bis introduced

[Jak Archibald]

Dear Amir,

The following extract from a paper which I delivered to the ABC Europe
meetings at the Copenhagen Business School in late May may be of
interest to you in this regard.  The full text of the paper will be
published by the CBS later this year.  For more information on this,
please contact:Anne Marie Bülow-Møller [amb.kom at cbs.dk] 

Best regards,

J. Archibald

Extract from: "Security and the New Communications Environment" 

[...]
Inherent dangers presented by the information society of the XXIst
century

Such dangers truly exist and are increasingly part of the new
communications environment.  It becomes clear why the underlying
principles of security take on a new dimension in terms of the world's
ability to adopt an effective international policy through the WSIS
process.  The international community seems to be on its way to making
policy decisions to maintain stability, guarantee international security
and protect and promote human rights and freedoms and emergent
democratic institutions notwithstanding localized resistance to these
initiatives. The test will come with the future implementation of action
plans formulated in keeping with the WSIS Declaration of Principles.

The international community will have to develop a framework of Internet
governance to deal with pervasive issues of cyber-crime, local and
globalised terrorism and politically motivated extremism.  [...]

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Dear Ralf,

As we discussed before with you, and as a represnetiave from a region
which 
is being the first victim of terrorism in the world, let me raise my own

concern that in principle if there is any note to terrorism in the 
documents, this is good, but our concern should be how they will
interpret 
it later on to limit freedom of expression in the name of terrorism. But
in 
principle we support reference to misuse of internet for terrorism, but
we 
leave to you as experts of how you wish to refer to it in your
statement. I 
should say, that many groups (including NGOs) in middle east region may 
support this new para.

Regards
Amir


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From: "Ralf Bendrath" <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> Hi all,
>
> a disturbing development occured this afternoon:
>
> In the working group chaired by Canada from 13:30-15:00, Isreael at 
> the
> very end introduced a new paragraph proposal (50bis). Other
delegations 
> said they have to consult before discussing it, and they will discuss
> it this evening, I think. The paragraph reads:
>
> “New 50bis. We underline the importance of countering the 
> manifestations of terrorism at all its forms in the Internet. In 
> particular, we condemn the use of the internet for purposes of 
> financing of terrorist acts, radicalization towards terrorist acts, 
> recruitment for terrorist acts, and glorification of terrorist acts 
> that may incite further terrorist acts.”
>
> The Privacy & Security Working Group and the Human Rights Caucus will
> issue a statement this evening. But in the meantime, talk to your 
> delegations and tell them we don't like this at all.
>
> As much as we hate terrorism - formulations like "glorification" etc. 
> are
> way too ambigous and vague and may easily lead to restrictions of
freedom 
> of speech.
>
> Best, Ralf
>
> PS: The drafting group was open to observers for the whole time, but I

> did
> not ask for the
> floor.
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