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From: "Lloyd Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UN Filth to Censor Internet
Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 10:02 AM
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Subject: SNET: A Must Read - It Never Rains, But It Pours - High UN Official Calls for
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:24:01 -0700
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Quote from below, Words of Italian Mafia prosecutor Pino Arlacchi, about
what comes up using internet search engines for drug information:
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"You can enter a completely
different world where the issue
[drug policy] is treated in the
opposite view as it should be.
Unfortunately, some of these views
are spreading and we are now
thinking about some instrument to
at least stop the expansion of this
flow of information."
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5. High UN Official Calls for Global Attack on Internet Drug
Information
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/143.html#unagain
The UN official in charge of the global body's international drug
control office called last week for a crackdown on the use of the
Internet in the drug trade. But his comments left unclear whether he
draws a distinction between the use of the Internet to disseminate
information about drugs and drug policy and its use in criminal activity
by drug trafficking organizations.
Pino Arlacchi, head of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime
Prevention (ODCCP, http://www.undcp.org), based in Vienna, told a New
York press conference last Thursday that his organization will explore
giving "universal jurisdiction" to Internet drug crimes because cyber
crime so easily evades traditional national jurisdictions.
Under international law, the only crimes that now qualify for universal
jurisdiction are genocide and crimes against humanity.
Because of the global nature of the drug trade, Arlacchi told the press
conference, "It is extremely difficult to route a case into a precise
jurisdiction, so we believe this problem is encouraging us to go in the
direction of universal jurisdiction."
He said the idea will be explored in depth at a UN symposium at year's
end in Palermo, Italy, to mark the signing of an international
convention on organized crime. The symposium will address expanding
universal jurisdiction to money laundering and Internet crime.
Arlacchi admitted, however, that use of the Internet in actual drug
trafficking or for online drug sales is "very small, it is minimal."
Arlacchi's remarks provided hints that he has more than drug
traffickers' use of the Internet in mind. The former Italian Mafia
prosecutor added that, "The Internet is more and more important in
providing exchanges of information, in expanding the market,
particularly the final market, and we are very worried about it."
Arlacchi said that by searching one key word, which he refused to
identify, "You receive advice on where to find drugs, you receive a lot
of extremely dangerous information."
Even worse, in the drug bureaucrat's view, "You can enter a completely
different world where the issue [drug policy] is treated in the opposite
view as it should be. Unfortunately, some of these views are spreading
and we are now thinking about some instrument to at least stop the
expansion of this flow of information."
The preceding statement appears clearly directed not at drug traffickers
but at organizations and individuals expressing policy preferences
different from those of the UN ODCCP.
To Sarah Andrews, policy analyst for the Electronic Privacy Information
Center, a non-profit civil liberties organization (http://www.epic.org),
Arlacchi's remarks "sound like an argument for censorship."
Andrews told DRCNet that Arlacchi's proposal should be seen in context.
"This is part of a larger attempt to control the Internet on the
international level," she noted. "The European Union has drafted
similar legislation," she said, adding that "this reprises the arguments
about cryptography, where law enforcement officials spoke of dire
threats but the number of crimes linked to it is really small."
Andrews said EPIC would oppose such a move by the UN. "This is an
exaggerated response to a small problem," she said. "There is a need
for security," she added, "but giving law enforcement more access to
private communications only gives them overreaching powers."
Another UN drug agency, the International Narcotics Control Board, has
called on nations to restrict the right of their citizens to discuss
drug legalization. (See
http://reason.com/9808/col.coffin.html for an excellent discussion by
Phil Coffin in Reason magazine.)
Arlacchi drew charges of lacking realism after he spearheaded a major UN
drug summit in 1998; the summit's title was "Drug Free in Ten Years: We
Can Do It."
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