World to UN:
"You and whose army?"
Putin's going to be quaking in his boots now.
UN council: Seriously, nations, stop switching off the damn internet
The United Nations officially condemned the practice of countries shutting down access to the internet at a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Friday. A resolution [PDF] entitled The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet effectively extends human rights held offline to the internet. It was …
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Friday 1st July 2016 21:02 GMT asdf
Re: World to UN:
Yeah when an organization can show up in Haiti and actually make the place worse with new disease not to mention flooding Africa with pedophile peace keepers who stand by and watch civilians get slaughtered maybe its best they just sit and talk instead of do. That includes their blacks and serbs only war crimes court.
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Saturday 2nd July 2016 20:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: World to UN:
Without the army approach, the whole Korea would be under the "Dear Fat Leader" (and many of them under a meter of dirt) . Guess those living in South Korea are very happy it didn't happen. The no-army approach never worked anywhere.
Oh well, Apple probably would be happier without Samsung...
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Sunday 3rd July 2016 12:19 GMT Ken Hagan
Re: World to UN:
"Putin's going to be quaking in his boots now."
I think the general opinion of Putin's predecessors and like-minded dictators elsewhere since 1945 is that the answer to "whose army" has always been Uncle Sam and his NATO friends. That's why they don't take too kindly to NATO expanding its membership in their general direction.
With reference to the topic of the article, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights) is *far* more than many countries have been willing to grant and it is hardly a modern creation. This latest vote looks like no more than a natural extension into the web domain of previously declared rights.
So it probably won't change much in the short term, but it is nice to have the principle explicitly re-stated.
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Saturday 2nd July 2016 03:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Theresa's CCTV for Internet?
What, no mention of Theresa Mays Snooper's Charter? The CCTV that's watching you reading the internet in your home? Spying on your private online lives. Listening in on your conversations? The one Theresa May, dropped in for a vote in the middle of Brexit, so that nobody would challenge it, and risk attack from their Brexit opponents?
That one?
Ahh, yes, it's there too:
"Recognizing that privacy online is important for the realization of the right to freedom of expression and to hold opinions without interference, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association..."
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Saturday 2nd July 2016 20:52 GMT energystar
Can't less than feel love...
For the actual UN writing.
But wonder if this writing isn't itself being insular. After all: Is it an statement of intention? Does a 'double discourse' remain inside?
Maybe all what those rebels are trying to do is being honest [on the letter] about an Actual Status Quo.
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Saturday 2nd July 2016 20:53 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
India, Indonesia and, South Africa don't surprise me in the least
India has been trying their damnedest to hide the massive amount of crimes perpetrated against women and homosexuals. Woman are constantly being raped, and in some area, they are stoned to death for "tempting a righteous man into sin" if they complain. As for homosexuals, well, I'd be thrown in prison for life the second I step on Indian soil since I was found guilty, in absetia, of 20 violations of IPC-377 (Fuck you Imperial Britain for bringing that along with you). I had helped with organizing the Seattle Gay Pride Parade a few years back and wanted to help out with establishing on in Chennai. Found out that the local politicians didn't take to kindly to what I was doing and ordered my arrest, barely made it onto the plane and out of Indian airspace before the warrant went through and my visa was cancelled.
As for Indonesia, they have this massive slave problem going on that they've been trying to cover up. The fishing fleets use, almost exclusively, slave labor for the crews. There is also wide-spread issues with child abuse, and epidemic levels of crimes against women.
South Africa still has quite a lot of corruption and severe race issues remaining from Apartheid. Ethnic cleansing still occasionally happens in the rural areas, and even in the major population centers, large swathes of the police forces and quite a few low-level politicians are unabashed racists.
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Monday 4th July 2016 10:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: India, Indonesia and, South Africa don't surprise me in the least
"large swathes of the police forces and quite a few low-level politicians are unabashed racists"
They sure are - ever since the end of apartheid - when the extremely shoulder chipped black majority gradually took many of these roles...
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