[Privsec] update on paras 49-51, new "terrorist" paragraph introduced

Ralf Bendrath bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Wed Sep 28 16:01:01 BST 2005


karen banks wrote:

> are there other paras dealing with use of the internet? eg.. what 
> happened to this awful para? (korea)
> 
> 49 bis: We reiterate our commitments to the [positive/ethical] uses of 
> the ICTs [with internet (Korea)] and to take appropriate actions and 
> preventive measures, as determined by law, against abusive uses of ICTs 
> as mentioned under the Ethical Dimension of the Information Society of 
> the Geneva Declaration of Principles and Plan of Actions.

Rikke talked to the EU: "ethical" is out. They will probably agree on 
"positive", which is more or less ok, as it does not mean anything.

> we have the ethics and values caucus (of civil society) to thank for 
> that! (the Geneva stuff)
And the youth caucus for the "Terrorism" language? ;-)


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