Great win for Human rights

Unfortunately, telecom giants AT&T, Verizon, Sprint still play as Big Brother pawns, and will not be doing anything (or at least have not committed to anything) in support of the GNI

Among the members: The Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights China, Business for Social Responsibility, the Calvert Group, and Harvard University's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) which is urging the US government (and companies) to promote internet freedom as an integral part of protecting human rights and advancing foreign policy, also to enforce global trade standards, create an office of Global Internet Freedom within the state department and list internet restricting companies annually, and create a minimum standards for online freedom.

These standards are to include, protection of PIP (Personally identifiable information) as well as the integrity of that information. But the coolest thing the CDT asked for was transparency of search engine filtering and censorship with investigation of technologies used for surveillance and suppression of speech.

Now, I wonder, what would Jordanian Municipality say in these regards? What about the countries that establish these humongous proxies to prevent internet users from accessing sites? With matters like these growing in size and popularity, I guess it's about time we get internet freedom regulated!

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