Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-06 Thread Rafik Dammak
Hi Christian, not sure why you label them as neoliberal declarations. I saw many and knowing some of their authors I doubt that they are defending such point of views. you can find here a longer list and comparison http://bestbits.net/issue-comparison-of-major-declarations-on-internet-freedom/ I

Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread Jillian C. York
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Christian Fuchs wrote: > Thanks for the collection. > > On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning > as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. > I agree with you, but given that yours is posted as an Avaaz petition, i

Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread hellekin
On 04/03/2014 03:36 PM, Christian Fuchs wrote: > Thanks for the collection. > *** Indeed, thanks a lot. > On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and > petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. > *** Indeed, and that's part of the "problem" of unity th

Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread Christian Fuchs
Thanks for the collection. On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered. On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corpora

Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread Jillian C. York
Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See: 1994: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html 1996:

[liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread Christian Fuchs
The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critca