Tuesday, December 11, 2012

petition at the website below against the UN takeover of the internet


Please read the message below and consider signing the petition at the website below against the UN takeover of the internet.   Watch people worldwide as they sign the petition.  TIME IS SHORT - WE MUST DO THIS NOW!
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Pascal V - Avaaz.org (avaaz@avaaz.org) wrote:

Right now at a UN meeting in Dubai authoritarian regimes are pushing for
full governmental control of the Internet in a binding global treaty
-- if
they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much
slower. We have only 2 days to stop them.


The Internet has been an amazing example of people power -- allowing us to connect, speak out and pressure leaders like never before. That's largely
because it's been governed to-date by users and non-profits and not
governments. But now countries like Russia, China and United Arab  Emirates are trying to rewrite a major telecom treaty called the ITR to bring the Internet under its control -- the web would then be shaped by government interests and not by us, the users. 

Tim Berners Lee, one of the "fathers of the Internet," has warned that this could increase censorship online and invade our privacy. But if we object with a massive people-powered petition, we can strengthen the hand of countries fighting this power grab.

We have stopped attacks like this before and can do it again before the
treaty text is locked this week. A wave of opposition to a new ITR is
already building -- sign the petition to tell governments hands off our
Internet! and then forward this email to everyone you know -- when we hit 1
million signers, it'll be delivered straight to the delegates at this cozy
meeting: 


http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?beaJndb&v=20029

The meeting to update the ITR (International Telecommunication
Regulations) is being convened by a UN body called the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU). Normally, it wouldn't merit much attention, but Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and others are trying to use the meeting to increase government control of the Internet through proposals that would allow for access to be cut off more easily, threaten privacy, legitimize monitoring and traffic-blocking, and introduce new fees to access content online.

At the moment, our Internet has no central regulatory body, but various
non-profit organisations work together to manage different technological,
commercial and political interests to allow the Internet to run.  The
current model is certainly not without its flaws. US dominance and
corporate influence highlight the need for reform, but changes should not
be dictated from an opaque governments-only treaty body. They should emerge from an open and transparent, people-powered process -- putting the interests of us users in the center.


The ITU does extremely important work -- expanding affordable access for
poor countries and securing networks -- but it's not the right place to
make changes to how the Internet operates. Let's ensure that our Internet
stays free and governed by the public and show the ITU and the world that
we won’t stay silent in the face of this Internet attack. Click below to
sign and then share this email widely:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?beaJndb&v=20029

Avaaz members have come together before to save the free web -- and won.  More than 3 million of us demanded the US kill a bill that would have given the government the right to shut down any website, helping push the White House to drop its support. 

In the EU, the European Parliament responded after 2.8 million of us called on them to drop ACTA, another threat to the free net. Together, now we can do it again.

With hope,

Pascal, Ian, Paul, Luca, Caroline and the rest of the Avaaz team

SOURCES

Cerf and Berners Lee Criticize ITU Conference (IT Pro Portal):
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/12/05/sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-criticism-
of-un-internet-regulation-talks/#ixzz2EDlH06f5


ITU and Google face off at Dubai conference over future of the internet
(Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/telecoms-unitednations

Keep the Internet Open (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?
_r=1&


Proposal for global regulation of web (Financial Times):
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1b114d8c-422e-11e2-bb3a-
00144feabdc0.html#axzz2EdnmBAXI

Who controls the Internet? (Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/17/who-rules-internet This
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http://www.avaaz.org/en/contact/?footer

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

there's no welfare check or food stamps involved, forget about anyone signing.

Anonymous said...

You are sooooo negative!!!

Anonymous said...

Nesara News has 18 million +++ viewers, so let's participate in this and stop governments from running our lives. The internet is an important forum for the people from all over the world to communicate, and it is important that we keep it like this!