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The Internet Association is putting forward an interesting proposal
for NAFTA that would address cases like those from Canada, France,
and Austria (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/everybody-wants-rule-world-internet-jurisdiction-2016">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/everybody-wants-rule-world-internet-jurisdiction-2016</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N1IA21C">http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N1IA21C</a>) where a court
has issued an order purporting to require an Internet platform to
globally restrict content that is unlawful in one country. The IA
proposal at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://internetassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Modernizing-NAFTA-White-Paper.pdf">https://internetassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Modernizing-NAFTA-White-Paper.pdf</a>
calls for:<br>
<blockquote>Limits on global injunctions and non-party injunctions.
The digital economy has developed in a legal environment where the
United States has been free to develop and enforce its own laws
regarding the internet, rather than allow other countries to
dictate what U.S. businesses and citizens can do online. However,
courts in some other countries, including Canada, have recently
sought to control what U.S. companies can publish and access
online on a global basis – by issuing non-party injunctions
(so-called ‘global injunctions’) against U.S. companies. <br>
</blockquote>
EFF is also putting in a NAFTA proposal, but as of yet we don't have
a position on the IA's approach. What do others think of this?<br>
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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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