[Manila Principles] Manila Principles & Broadband Commission VAWG report

[Eduardo Bertoni]

Dear colleagues,

I pretty much agree on what Gabrielle, Jeremy and Prof. Park said. Here in
Argentina an "anti-discrimination" law has just been proposed to the
Congress. For those who are able to read in Spanish, you can find what I
said here
<http://opinion.infobae.com/eduardo-bertoni/2015/07/22/censura-disfrazada-de-antidiscriminacion/>.
Moreover, a Congressman also proposed an anti "revenge porn" law. We (CELE
<http://www.palermo.edu/cele>) made some comments to the first draft. He
took into account some of our comments but in general the bill is not good.
My opinion: there is a universal "trend" to pursue legitimate goals (such
as fight again child porn, hate speech, and others) by implementing bad
regulations on the Internet. Bad because the impact to freedom of
expression is, in most cases, negative and important.

Best

e

Eduardo Bertoni

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:23 PM, kyungsinpark <kyungsinpark at korea.ac.kr>
wrote:

> I only read the highlights.  I think it is okay to sensitize people away
> from flaming but criminally punishing them for using “violent words” must
> be done with care but the report highlights do not seem to make that
> distinction.  FYI, we here in Korea have tried to limit (or establish) any
> hate speech regulation as an appendage of anti-discrimination laws, in an
> effort to obtain the difficult balance between FOX and equality.  I second
> on both Gabrielle’s and Jeremy’s ideas going forward.
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> On 29/09/2015 1:06 am, gabrielle at article19.org wrote:
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> ARTICLE 19 has been in touch with UNESCO to flag our concerns regarding
> the implications of the report for intermediary liability (despite the fact
> that the Manila Principles are cited in the report at page 26). The
> recommendation for government bodies to use their licensing prerogative to
> ensure that "only those telecoms and search engines are allowed to connect
> with the public that supervise content and its dissemination" is
> particularly problematic (see page 48):
> http://broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-wg-gender-report2015.pdf
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> We've also suggested to UNESCO a joint event on 'gender-based hatred'.
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> Happy to discuss this further.
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