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Today the Manila Principles committee is pleased to unveil our
revamped website with the text in eight new languages at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.manilaprinciples.org/">https://www.manilaprinciples.org/</a>! The text is now available in
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Korean and
Thai, and the FAQ and floating definitions are also available in
most of those same languages. Huge thanks to our (mostly volunteer)
translators for making this possible!<br>
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Simultaneously we have rolled out some other updates including an
expanded and reformatted jurisdictional analysis paper, reformatted
background document, reformatted PDF versions of the text in each
language, and the above-mentioned floating definitions of key terms.
A preview of the relaunched website was successfully presented last
week at an action day in South Korea (reports: <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/threats-korean-and-european-web-hosts-rise-manila-principles-go-tour">here</a>
and <a
href="http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20150629154103&type=det&re">here</a>)
and at the Asia-Pacific Regional IGF in Macau.<br>
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With this relaunch, we are now positioned to step out our outreach
around the principles, including upcoming discussions with US and
European officials, leading into the first global IGF presentation
of the principles at a workshop in
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<span class="st">João Pessoa</span>, at which UN Rapporteur for
Freedom of Expression and Opinion, David Kaye, is a confirmed
panelist (subject to availability).<br>
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We are also looking forward to future activities for which we can
leverage the Manila Principles website, "brand", and community. The
idea that the steering committee has suggested for your
consideration is that we draft a resource for the implementation of
principle 3(d) and (e), which provide:<br>
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<span class="views-field views-field-body"><span
class="field-content">Intermediaries who host content may be
required by law to respond to content restriction requests
pertaining to unlawful content by either forwarding lawful and
compliant requests to the user content provider, or by
notifying the complainant of the reason it is not possible to
do so ... When forwarding the request, the intermediary must
provide a clear and accessible explanation of the user content
provider’s rights, including in all cases where the
intermediary is compelled by law to restrict the content a
description of any available counter-notice or appeal
mechanisms.</span></span></blockquote>
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The idea is therefore to provide some template text (or even a text
generator) that intermediaries could use to ensure that they do not
forward misleading or incomplete information to their users when
content restriction is requested. It would probably make most sense
for a small working group to form to begin this work, and to report
back to this main list with a draft. The template could be launched
either at the IGF (if ready by then), or on the first anniversary of
the Principles.<br>
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If you are interested in helping work on such a document, please let
me know (off-list is fine). Also, please take the relaunch of the
site in eight new languages as a good opportunity to blog, tweet and
message your colleagues and contacts about this growing resource.
Many thanks!<br>
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