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Agree - important topic.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/2015 7:36 PM, Robin Gross
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type="cite">I very much like the proposal to remind ICANN of the
importance to stay out of content regulation (leave that to legal
/ judicial processes). Thanks for the suggestion, Ed!
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<div>On Jan 25, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Edward Morris wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to suggest a topic that
has not had high visibility
in our stakeholder group in recent years, yet is a big
part of the NCSG DNA:
the belief that ICANN should not be involved in
content control. It’s part of
our belief in free expression and it’s something that
very slowly ICANN is
getting involved in fairly blatantly. I think it would
be productive for us to
raise the flag in this area to get word to the Board
that we’re noticing this
and that we do not approve of this mission creep.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ICANN has always been involved in
content to some degree. The most
visible activity in this area came during the .XXX
battles where contractual
language specified forms of prohibited content.
Obviously the new gTLD
programme involves, in many ways, content
classification. But recently…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This autumn we learned that ICANN
had employees going
through corporate records of firms in Panama to help
law enforcement track down
an alleged child pornography ring. ( <a
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). Now Fadi tells us they are attempting to figure out
what to do with the case
of a Bulgarian man with servers in Costa Rica who is
allegedly putting i.p.
ingringing content online ( NCSG – CEO meeting, NCPH
intersessional transcript,
p. 19-20). This is certainly a long way from names and
numbers. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We know Fadi’s perspective.
According to Mr. Chehade, ICANN
is under pressure. It’s one of the reasons ICANN is
supposedly getting involved
in the NMI. Yet during the interessional meeting Fadi
also stated several times
that ICANN needed community input to help determine
“how far does ICANN want to
go?” on matters like these (intersessional transcript,
p. 10). We need to tell
him that ICANN has no role to play in policing content
online.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although we know Fadi’s position
(both revelations mentioned
above came as a result of Fadi speaking
extemporaneously) and expressed
confusion on these matters we
haven’t really heard from the Board about situations
like these. On the one hand we’re
told during the transition that ICANN has a limited
remit and is going to stick
to it. On the other hand we have ICANN employees
searching through Central
American corporate records to assist authorities in
policing content. I think
it would be appropriate for us to express concern
about ICANN’s incursions,
both actual and contemplated, into content and to try
to get clarification as to
the Board’s views and intentions on the matter.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi everyone,</p>
<p dir="ltr">We need to get 3 topics to discuss with
the ICANN board at singapore meeting.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Rafik </p>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div>like every time in preparation for ICANN
meeting, we have to discuss what kind of
topics/issues we want to raise with ICANN
board members when we meet them.</div>
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<div>we will try to get 3 topics and send them
1 week prior to the session. </div>
<div>please propose topics and suggest short
descriptions . we will conduct later a
polling to pick-up the 3 topics among the
proposals.</div>
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<div>Best Regards,</div>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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