Re: [hrpc] Censorship

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

> Il 11/03/2022 10:38 Bill Woodcock <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> > On Mar 11, 2022, at 9:57 AM, Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=[e-mail]> wrote:
> > I think that this call for a global, multistakeholder process to block access to Russian military and news websites
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> I encourage you to all read it for yourselves, because, as one of the authors and one of the signatories, that’s not what we said. 

Indeed people should read it, that's why it was linked.

Now, thanks for your reply - the document itself calls for a public discussion, though it does not specify where. I am afraid that most of the points you raise could be off topic for this group, but if the chairs think differently, I am happy to continue the discussion in detail here. Or, I am happy to join the public discussion wherever the signatories want it to happen.

The only point that IMHO is in topic for this group is that if all Internet protocols and services were designed in the way we advise in draft-guidelines, then the sanctions proposed by the document would be technically impossible; that seemed to me like something that we should discuss.

Perhaps we should recognize in draft-guidelines that, after all, censorship is sometimes desirable and there should be technical and policy hooks to implement it; so protocol designers should rather think at how to address this need while preventing such practices from becoming overbroad. I would be much in favour of this, as I do think that censorship is sometimes desirable, including in this case; but this did not seem to be the consensus of this group (and of PEARG) in the past.

-- vb.