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training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-pro02a | access information house believes internet encourages democracy | Websites can strengthen democratic institutions. The promotion of democracy is not only about forming new democracies; strengthening existing democratic institutions around the globe. To do so, transparency and government-citizen communication is necessary. Britain has set up two websites that achieve exactly that. Wr... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-pro03a | access information house believes internet encourages democracy | The internet allows political dissidents to communicate, organize, and grow a grassroots movement. Another extremely important requirement for successful opposition movements advocating democratic reform is the ability to organize mass numbers of people. It is one thing if you hate your government, but don’t think any... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-pro01a | access information house believes internet encourages democracy | The internet promotes the free flow of information both in and out of a country, which is essential for a truly free democracy. Media can be one of the most important factors in democratic development. If governments successfully control the media, they can direct information towards their constituents that casts the ... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-pro04a | access information house believes internet encourages democracy | The internet enhances communication between countries. The internet does not only make information available to oppressed people within a country, but also communicates that situation to the rest of the world. People also learn about other authoritarian—and democratic—governments around the world. For example, the int... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-con02a | aihbied | The digital divide leaves the same people in places of influence and power. The internet doesn’t necessarily put power in the hands of the vulnerable; in many places it strengthens the influence of the traditional elite. In low-income countries the cost of broadband is 900% of average monthly income1. Most people simp... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-con04a | aihbied | The internet can be used to quash democratic movements. The internet makes it much easier for states to target and locate dissidents. They can be located by their IP addresses or records kept by internet cafes. It is almost impossible by today’s standards to remain anonymous on the internet1. Surveillance used to be t... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-con01a | aihbied | The internet can be successfully censored so that it only promotes pro-regime propaganda. The internet is said to promote democracy based on the claim that it leads to the free flow of information. Unfortunately, this is false in many parts of the world. 40 countries around the globe actively censor the internet, and ... |
training-digital-freedoms-aihbied-con03a | aihbied | Citizens often use the internet in ways that detract from democracy. The idea that the internet promotes democracy also operates under the assumption that the people with internet access will use the tool for ‘good’. Yet, this is also not the case. The internet is the primary medium of coordination for Jihadist groups... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-pro02a | government terrorism digital freedoms access information should | Historical precedent. Historically, governments have always controlled the access to information and placed restriction on media during times of war. This is an entirely reasonable policy and is done for a number of reasons: to sustain morale and prevent predominantly negative stories from the battlefield reaching the... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-pro03a | government terrorism digital freedoms access information should | The internet as a threat to public safety. The internet can be used as a tool to create an imminent threat to the public. If public officials had information that a massive protest is being organized, which could spiral into violence and endanger the safety of the public, it would be irresponsible for the government n... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-pro01a | government terrorism digital freedoms access information should | National security takes precedence. Internet access is not a fundamental right as recognized by any major human rights convention, if it can be called a right at all. [1] Even if we accept that people should have a right to internet access, in times of war or civil unrest the government should be able to abridge lesse... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-con02a | gtdfais | Disrupting internet service is a form of repression. The organization of public protests is an invaluable right for citizens living under the rule of oppressive regimes. Like in the case of the Arab Spring, internet access gives them the tools to mobilize, make their message heard, and demand greater freedoms. In such... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-con01a | gtdfais | The right to internet access as a fundamental right. Internet access is a “facilitative right”, in that it facilitates access to the exercise of many other rights: like freedom of expression, information, and assembly. It is a “gateway right”. Possessing a right is only as valuable as your capacity to exercise it. A g... |
training-digital-freedoms-gtdfais-con03a | gtdfais | The prevention of atrocities during war and unrest. In the past, horrific crimes could be committed in war zones without anyone ever knowing about it, or with news of it reaching the international community with a significant time lag, when it was too late to intervene. But with the presence of internet connected mobi... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-pro02a | governmental transparency house believes there should be presumption | Compelling public bodies to publish information ensures that non-citizens, minors, foreign nationals and others have access to information that affects them. Genuine transparency and accountability of government action is not only in the interests of those who also have the right to vote for that government or who sup... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-pro03a | governmental transparency house believes there should be presumption | Even the most liberal FoI regime tends to pander to certain groups in society full disclosure levels that playing field People have many different interests in the accountability of governments; different areas of concern, differing levels of skill in pursuing those interests and so on. They deserve, however, an equal... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-pro01a | governmental transparency house believes there should be presumption | If public bodies do not have an obligation to publish information, there will always be a temptation to find any available excuses to avoid transparency. The primary advantage of putting the duty on government to publish, rather than on citizens to enquire is that it does not require the citizen to know what they need... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-pro04a | governmental transparency house believes there should be presumption | A faster, cheaper and simpler process There are cost concerned with processing FoI requests both in terms of time and cash terms. [i] To take one example Britain’s largest local authority, Birmingham, spends £800,000 a year dealing with FoI requests. [ii] There is also a delay from the point of view of the applicant. ... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-con02a | gthbtsbp | Public bodies require the ability to discuss proposals freely away from public scrutiny Knowing that everything is likely to be recorded and then published is likely to be counter-productive. It seems probable that anything sensitive – such as advice given to ministers by senior officials – would either not be recorde... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-con01a | gthbtsbp | Considering the amount of data governments produce, compelling them to publish all of it would be counterproductive as citizens would be swamped. It is a misnomer in many things that more is necessarily better but that is, perhaps, more true of information than of most things. Public bodies produce vast quantities of ... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthbtsbp-con03a | gthbtsbp | It is reasonable that people have access to information that effects them personally but not information that relates to their neighbours’, employers’, former-partners’ or other citizens who maythose who work for public bodies. The right to access allows people to see information that affects them personally or where ... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-pro02a | ity digital freedoms access knowledge house would subsidise translation | Translation gives access to students to learn valuable information and develop their human capital and to become academically and economically competitive The ability to access the wealth of knowledge being generated in the developed world would greatly impact the ability of students and budding academics in the devel... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-pro03a | ity digital freedoms access knowledge house would subsidise translation | Translation expands the knowledge base of citizens to help solve local problems It is often the case that science and technology produced in the developed world finds its greatest application in the developing world. Sometimes new developments are meant for such use, as was the case with Norman Borlaug's engineering o... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-pro01a | ity digital freedoms access knowledge house would subsidise translation | Translation allows greater participation by academics in global academia and global marketplace of ideas Communication in academia is necessary to effectively engage with the work of their colleagues elsewhere in the world, and in sciences in particular there has become a lingua franca in English. [1] Any academic wit... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-con02a | idfakhwst | The West has no particular obligation to undergo such a sweeping policy Governments and academic institutions have no special duty to give full access to all information that they generate and publish in academic journals to anyone who might want it. If they want to make their research public that is their prerogative... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-con01a | idfakhwst | It is better to have fewer languages in common use in global academic and economic interrelations A proliferation of languages in academia will serve to fracture the interrelations of academics, not unify them. As more and more academics and innovators interested in new academic developments find it possible to obtain... |
training-digital-freedoms-idfakhwst-con03a | idfakhwst | It is prohibitively expensive to translate everything and difficult to prioritize what to translate Ultimately any policy of translation of academic work must rely on a degree of prioritization on the part of the translators since there is no way that all academic work of any kind could be translated into other major ... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-pro02a | freedom expression should new global body united nations committee | Governments not ‘civil society’ must be in control of internet governance It is governments who are in charge of setting public policy within countries so it makes sense that these same governments should set public policy in the international sphere; [1] this is why international organisations have been set up and wh... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-pro03a | freedom expression should new global body united nations committee | Simplicity One of the best things about the proposal to create CIRP is that it simply brings the internet into line with other areas of international communication and the global economy by bringing the internet into the United Nations system. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for example is the body th... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-pro01a | freedom expression should new global body united nations committee | Internet governance must be multinational The internet is global, things on the internet do not just affect one country, indeed they often don’t just affect a small group of countries but affect every country. This is especially true of issues of internet governance as setting the rules for the internet and the archit... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-con02a | fesngbunc | CIRP would place power in the hands of authoritarian governments The intention for the creation of CIRP is to give more power to governments, and particularly to authoritarian governments that wish much greater control over the internet. If CIRP is meant to enable “enhanced cooperation to enable governments, on an equ... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-con01a | fesngbunc | The internet should be governed in the interests of freedom The internet is used by everyone and so should be governed in such a way as reflects the desires of the users of the internet; and this is somewhere where internet users are often at odds with their governments. Where the freedom of individuals are concerned ... |
training-digital-freedoms-fesngbunc-con03a | fesngbunc | The status quo has been very successful; don’t fix something that is not broken. The current system for control of the internet has been successful in managing phenomenal growth in the internet with very few problems. ICANN has been a success precisely because it does not focus on politics but on making the internet a... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-pro02a | governmental transparency house would post full financial history all | Financial dealings can indicate candidates’ willingness to circumvent the system/play by the rules A lot of politicians come from positions of prestige and power before seeking public office. Many politicians have wealth in their own right, or a base of wealthy supporters. Understanding where that wealth came from and... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-pro03a | governmental transparency house would post full financial history all | This information offers valuable texture to the financial proposals candidates offer as potential policy When candidates make proposals for public spending they often seek to use their own financial stories as evidence of their credibility. Without public knowledge of their actual financial record, besides what can be... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-pro01a | governmental transparency house would post full financial history all | Voters have a right to know the background of their would-be representatives, including financial background In any society, no matter how liberal, rights of every kind have limitations. Rights are general statements of principles that are then caveated and curtailed to fit the public interest across a range of circum... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-con02a | gthwpffha | Fixating on candidates’ financial records fuels the fire of class war More and more the financial dealings of candidates are used against them in politics. In past decades, politicians in many countries were proud to run on the basis of their successes in the private sector. Today, however, that success has often beco... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-con01a | gthwpffha | Individuals have a right to privacy, including to their own financial records Privacy is a fundamental human right, one that should be defended for all citizens, including those who govern us. [1] What people do with their own finances is their own business. People generally speaking have a basic respect for privacy. ... |
training-digital-freedoms-gthwpffha-con03a | gthwpffha | The focus of elections should be on policy, not personal issues like financial records Discussion of candidates’ personal finances serves only to obscure the real issues facing society. When the focus becomes on how much tax Candidate X paid and what loopholes he or she exploited, the media tends to latch onto it. It ... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-pro02a | e internet freedom censorship ip digital freedoms freedom expression | Democratic states have an obligation to not bolster repression abroad It is common for Western democracies to make sweeping statements about the universality of certain rights, and that their system of government is the one that should be most sought after in the world, that democracy is the only legitimate form of go... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-pro03a | e internet freedom censorship ip digital freedoms freedom expression | The right of Western businesses to sell their services abroad can be curtailed when their actions stand counter to the interests of their home governments Corporations are private entities that have the right to sell their services and to deal with agents foreign and domestic, including governments. However, this righ... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-pro01a | e internet freedom censorship ip digital freedoms freedom expression | Advanced surveillance technology prevents dissidents from being able to organize and sue for freedom High-tech surveillance technology has given repressive governments and police states a new lease on life. Now more than ever they can intrude into every aspect of people’s lives, ensuring that dissent is cowed for fear... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-pro04a | e internet freedom censorship ip digital freedoms freedom expression | This ban would have a powerful signalling effect expressing disapproval of non-democracies' system of government A ban on the sale of surveillance technology to non-democracies serves ultimately as a statement of disapproval. It shows that the undemocratic regimes cannot be trusted with the ability to spy on their peo... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-con02a | eifcidffe | It is hypocritical for democratic governments to utilize surveillance technology to watch their own people while denying that technology to others It is a fatal conceit to consider democracies somehow above the influence of using their surveillance technology to curtail the freedoms of their own citizens. The biggest ... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-con04a | eifcidffe | The inability to use advanced technologies merely forces non-democracies to utilize more unsavoury methods to achieve their aims If it is the aim of an undemocratic regime to use advanced surveillance technology to gather intelligence on, and ultimately crush, dissent it will find other means of doing so. Their calcul... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-con01a | eifcidffe | Presuming democracy is the only legitimate or worthwhile form of government is both inaccurate and unproductive As much as the more liberal citizenry of many of the world’s democracies wish to believe otherwise, democracy as a system of government is not the only game in town. In fact, the growth of the strong-state/s... |
training-digital-freedoms-eifcidffe-con03a | eifcidffe | This ban will alienate non-democracies from discourse and stifle reform efforts When a state is declared illegitimate in the eyes of a large part of the international community, its natural reaction is one of upset and anger. A ban on the sale of surveillance technology to non-democracies would be seen as a brutal sla... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-pro02a | freedom expression house would use foreign aid funds research and | Providing secure channels is the easiest way to help dissidents and democracy activists If democracies are to provide money to help dissidents then this option of funding research into and distributing software to defeat censors is the easiest way in which to help these dissidents. Those who are trying to exercise the... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-pro03a | freedom expression house would use foreign aid funds research and | Funding technologies to evade censorship could have immense benefits for very little cost Most government aid budgets are small and have numerous other important calls on their resources such as development aid. Between 2008 and 2011 the United States Congress funded the effort against internet censorship with $76 mil... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-pro01a | freedom expression house would use foreign aid funds research and | We all have an obligation to help maintain freedom of speech. Article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights defines freedom of speech as “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information ... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-con02a | fehwufafra | Funds could be better spent on helping development Access to the internet is not the most pressing concern that foreign aid should be used to solve. Instead aid should help the 1.4billion who live on less than a dollar a day, [1] the 216 million people infected with malaria every year, [2] or the 42 million people who... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-con04a | fehwufafra | This will needlessly antagonise non-democratic countries The relationships which democratic countries have with non-democratic countries are much too important to jeopradise with such interference. Democracies and non-democracies need to be able to live peacefully with each other and engage in economic contact. Having... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-con01a | fehwufafra | Violation of Sovereignty Sovereignty is the exercise of the fullest possible rights over a piece of territory; the state is ‘supreme authority within a territory’. [1] The sovereignty of nations has been recognised by all nations in article 2 of the UN charter. [2] Funding attempts by citizens of a nation to avoid its... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehwufafra-con03a | fehwufafra | Evading censorship is already possible and censorship does not prevent the use of the internet. Proposition itself concedes that authoritarian states in the vast majority of cases are unlikely to cut off access to the internet for their population entirely. For many people the internet is not about free speech but abo... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-pro02a | privacy house would ban targeted online advertising basis user profiles | Consumers tend to find these strategies alienating Internet users have come to understand the nature of demographic and personal marketing, and have generally rejected it. This is because they consider the whole process invasive, with their personal details exploited to the profit of third party businesses seeking to ... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-pro03a | privacy house would ban targeted online advertising basis user profiles | Demographic/profile-based advertising fundamentally alters the experience of the internet for people of different backgrounds When the experience of the internet differs between people because of their backgrounds and past activities, the position of the online experience as one free of informational prejudice is unde... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-pro01a | privacy house would ban targeted online advertising basis user profiles | This advertising strategy undermines people’s right to personal privacy Targeted advertising based on profiles and demographic details is the product of information acquired in a fashion that is fundamentally invasive of individuals’ privacy. When individuals go online they act as private parties, often enjoying anony... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-con02a | phwbtoabup | The sort of information being used in this advertising is legitimate for firms to utilize The information trail left online through cookies etc. is a public statement, put into the public sphere. Provided the individual's identity is not revealed the information is usable through the impermeable intermediary of securi... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-con01a | phwbtoabup | This form of marketing makes for better advertising that benefits consumers By targeting demographics and personal profiles, businesses are able to put forward the services that are statistically likely to pique their target’s interest. In the past, because advertisers had limited budgets and no sophisticated means of... |
training-digital-freedoms-phwbtoabup-con03a | phwbtoabup | This advertising strategy benefits companies by making marketing more efficient and allows smaller markets to develop Targeted advertising using the wealth of personal information left for collection and collation online makes business far more efficient for advertisers. Until recently advertisers were forced to use a... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-pro02a | intellectual property house would cut length copyright protection | Lengthy copyright protection is extremely inefficient for the dissemination of works Only a tiny fraction of copyrighted works ever become massive successes, breeding the riches of a JK Rowling or the like. Far more often, artists only make modest profits from their artistic works. In fact, almost all income from copy... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-pro03a | intellectual property house would cut length copyright protection | Long copyrights serve to severely limit access by the public to creative works Because copyrights are so long, they often result in severely limiting access to some works by anyone. Many “orphan works”, whose copyright holders are unknown, cannot be made available online or in other free format due to copyright protec... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-pro01a | intellectual property house would cut length copyright protection | Overlong copyright protection stifles the creativity and saps the time of artists In some instances, when artists achieve success they face the enervating impulse that their achievement brings. They become satisfied and complacent with what they have, robbing them of their demiurgic drive. Worse, and more frequently, ... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-pro04a | intellectual property house would cut length copyright protection | Long copyright stifles creative responses to and re-workings of the original work Artistic creations, be they books, films, paintings, etc. serve as a spark for others to explore their own creativity. Much of the great works of art of the 20th century, like Disney films reworking ancient fairy tales, were reexaminatio... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-con02a | iphwclcp | Control of an artistic work and its interaction in the public sphere is the just province of the creator and his or her designated successors The creator of a piece of copyrighted material has brought forth a novel concept and product of the human mind. That artist thus should have a power over that work’s use. Art is... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-con04a | iphwclcp | The promise of copyright protection galvanizes people to develop creative endeavors The incentive to profit drives a great deal of people’s intellectual endeavours. Without the guarantee of ownership over one’s artistic work, the incentive to invest in its creation is significantly diminished. Within a robust copyrigh... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-con01a | iphwclcp | Artists deserve to profit from their work and copyright provides just recompense Artists generating ideas and using their effort to produce an intangible good, be it a new song, painting, film, etc. have a property right over those ideas and the products that arise from them. It is the effort to produce a real good, a... |
training-digital-freedoms-iphwclcp-con03a | iphwclcp | Artists often rely on copyright protection to support dependents and family after, including after they are dead Artists may rely on their creative output to support themselves. This is certainly no crime, and existing copyright laws recognize this fact. Artists rarely have pensions of the sort that people in other pr... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-pro02a | freedom expression house believes western democracies should openly try | Western democracies have a moral duty to aid the liberation of oppressed people where it can effectively do so Western democracies make frequent declarations about the universality of certain rights, such as freedom of speech, or from arbitrary arrest, and that their system of government is the one that broadly speaki... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-pro03a | freedom expression house believes western democracies should openly try | This would make a powerful statement in favour of freedom of expression and against repression Western governments pursuing this policy serve to make a clear and emphatic statement about free speech in an arena it has significant power to influence. By taking this action it makes it clear to repressive regimes that th... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-pro01a | freedom expression house believes western democracies should openly try | Repressive governments rely on internet censorship to stifle dissent and entrench their power The internet has become the ultimate platform for dissent within repressive regimes. It breaks the government monopoly on information and communication. As the technology governments have to keep control of their people incre... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-con02a | fehbwdsot | Circumvention of internet censorship will galvanize more severe, physical repression to compensate its need for security Oppressive regimes will not be any less oppressive just because Western states seek to undermine their ability to censor the internet. They still rely on fear and force to control and cow the popula... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-con01a | fehbwdsot | This policy alienates the oppressive regimes and stifles the change that discourse and positive interaction can bring When a repressive government sees its power directly attacked by Western democracies, and sees them actively trying to subvert their power by empowering dissidents they consider unlawful criminals, it ... |
training-digital-freedoms-fehbwdsot-con03a | fehbwdsot | It results in Western companies getting kicked out of the countries, damaging significant Western businesses Western businesses have been seeking entry into external markets, some of which could well be classified as oppressive. These firms have invested significant time, money, and manpower into building up their bus... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-pro02a | p ip digital freedoms access knowledge house would not fund any work not | The default of copyright restricts the spreading of information Current copyright law assigns too many rights, automatically, to the creator. Law gives the generator a work full copyright protection that is extremely restrictive of that works reuse, except when strictly agreed in contracts and agreements. Making the C... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-pro03a | p ip digital freedoms access knowledge house would not fund any work not | Creative commons allows existing work to be used as a building block by others The nature of the internet and mass media is such that many creators can benefit from the freedom and flexibility that creative commons licenses furnish to them. Creative commons provides vast benefits in allowing a creation to have life af... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-pro01a | p ip digital freedoms access knowledge house would not fund any work not | If the public funds a product it belongs to them Everyone benefits and is enriched by open access to resources that the government can provide. A work is the province of its creator in most respects, since it is from the mind and hand of its creator that it is born. But when the state opts to fund a project, it too be... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-con02a | pidfakhwnfawn | Creative commons is not a good option for many government works It is simply wrong to paint all government funding with one brush decreeing that it should only be spent if the results are going to be made available through creative commons. Governments fund a vast diversity of projects that could be subject to licensi... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-con01a | pidfakhwnfawn | Government, like everyone else, should be able to profit from its work, that profit benefits its citizens rather than harming them We generally accept the principle that people who create something deserve to benefit from that act of creation as they should own that work. [1] This is a principle that can be applied as... |
training-digital-freedoms-pidfakhwnfawn-con03a | pidfakhwnfawn | Creative commons prevents the incentive of profit The incentive of profit, rather than a creative productive drive, spurs the creation of new work. Without the guarantee of ownership over one’s work, the incentive to invest time and effort in its creation is significantly diminished. When the state is the only body wi... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-pro02a | privacy house believes private lives public figures should be open press | It’s what the public want to know about Newspapers are simply publishing the kind of stories the public want to read, it is no accident that the best-selling newspapers in the UK are the tabloids which regularly publish stories into the private lives of celebrities and that some of the highest rating news shows in the... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-pro03a | privacy house believes private lives public figures should be open press | No clear dividing line between public and private can be made. No clear dividing line can be drawn between public and private behavior; drawing up rules would be arbitrary and would prevent some corrupt, dubious or dishonest behavior from being exposed. For example, President Mitterrand of France hid his cancer from t... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-pro01a | privacy house believes private lives public figures should be open press | Those in power need to be held to account All people that are considered public figures have, to one degree or another, the power to affect society; be it in an overt way via politics or economics or more subtly via changing peoples’ perceptions of the world. These people need to held to account and the media is the m... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-con02a | phbplpfsbop | Unrestricted scrutiny into private lives could be a detriment to democracy Continual probing into the private lives of public figures actually harms the functioning of democracy. Very few potential political candidates, for example, will have entirely spotless private lives, free from embarrassing indiscretions commit... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-con01a | phbplpfsbop | Those in public positions deserve the same privacy rights as the general public Many public figures achieve celebrity status largely by mistake; it is a by-product of their pursuit of success in their particular field. For example, most professional footballers when young simply wanted to become the best player they c... |
training-digital-freedoms-phbplpfsbop-con03a | phbplpfsbop | The media could be endangering peoples’ mental and physical health. Pursuing stories regarding the lives of public figures could be putting the health of the person being pursued and their families lives in danger. The most extreme and infamous case of this would most arguably be the events which are said to have cont... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-pro02a | p ip internet digital freedoms privacy house would ban all anonymous | Reducing hate speech. Openly racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory comments made through public forums are much more likely when made anonymously, as people feel they are unlikely to see any consequences for voicing their hateful opinions. [1] This leads firstly to a propagation of these views in others, and a h... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-pro03a | p ip internet digital freedoms privacy house would ban all anonymous | Reducing currently illegal activity. Internet anonymity is very useful for planning and organising illegal activity, mostly buying and selling illegal goods, such as drugs, firearms, stolen goods, or child pornography, but also, in more extreme cases, for terrorism or assassinations. This is because it can be useful i... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-pro01a | p ip internet digital freedoms privacy house would ban all anonymous | Reducing cyberbullying. When internet anonymity is used for bullying, it can make the situation much worse. Firstly, perpetrators are much less likely to hold back or be cautious as they are less concerned with the possibility of being caught. This means the bullying is likely to be more intense than when it is done i... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-pro04a | p ip internet digital freedoms privacy house would ban all anonymous | Reducing fraud using fake identities. Anonymous posting can be used to make people believe you are someone who you are not. This can be done in order to acquire money from victims either by establishing a dishonest relationship or offering fraudulent business opportunities. [1] It is also a frequently used tool in chi... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-con02a | piidfphwbaa | Limiting ability of oppressed individuals to seek out help and community. Anonymous posting means people who are made to feel ashamed of themselves, or their identities within their local communities can seek out help and/or like-minded people. For example, a gay teenager in a fiercely homophobic community could find ... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-con04a | piidfphwbaa | Limiting ability to experiment with identity. The ability to post anonymously on the internet means that people can create a new identity for themselves where they will not be judged in terms of what they have done before. This can be particularly useful for people who are attempting to make significant positive refor... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-con01a | piidfphwbaa | Damaging to freedom of speech. People are only truly free to say what they wish when they do not have to worry about being personally persecuted, either by peers, strangers, or their government, for what they are saying. [1] Removing the right to post anonymously increases the pressures people feel to post in a partic... |
training-digital-freedoms-piidfphwbaa-con03a | piidfphwbaa | Reducing the extent to which large and powerful organisations can be criticised. Organisations with lots of wealth and legal power can be difficult to criticise when one’s name and personal information is attached to all attempts at protest and/or criticism. Internet anonymity means that individuals can criticise thes... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-pro02a | digital freedoms access information house believes state should provide | It would provide an efficient service for everyone A single, universal provider of broadband would allow the government to rationalize the management and development of the service. Multiple private service-providers ultimately end up causing three serious problems. The first two are straightforward, that private firm... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-pro03a | digital freedoms access information house believes state should provide | Broad-based access to broadband is essential for countries to be competitive and to excel Information technology is critical to the success of contemporary economies, with even the simplest business ventures. Uneven or non-existent penetration of broadband is a major drag on economic progress. [1] The private sector h... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-pro01a | digital freedoms access information house believes state should provide | The information age demands a right to broadband access As information technology has come more and more to pervade people’s lives, it has become abundantly clear that a new set of positive rights must be considered. In the forefront of this consideration stands broadband. Broadband allows for far more rapid access to... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-pro04a | digital freedoms access information house believes state should provide | Universal broadband is a necessary prerequisite to developing more efficient and effective power-grids Advanced infrastructure technology often relies on the existence of broadband technology universally installed across the grid. Countries like South Korea and Japan have succeeded in expanding their power grids by me... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-con02a | dfaihbssp | The state can work more effectively through the private sector If the state is worried about provision of broadband in areas too sparsely populated or disadvantaged, they can provide subsidies to private firms to develop the areas that are not profitable without needing to develop full government-operated companies. J... |
training-digital-freedoms-dfaihbssp-con01a | dfaihbssp | State intervention would crowd out private firms The imposition of a powerful state firm dominating the broadband market would serve to reduce the ability of private providers to compete. The greater resources of the state would be able to give it the power to dictate the market, making it less attractive to private i... |
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