ICANN Comments to EDPB and content regulation

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Thank you so much for raising this here Farz.  I will definitely mention
this topic when I have my next interaction with Goran.

About the Content Moderation part, I agree with you that this topic might
be absolutely out of the scope of the SSAD and ICANN as well. And this has
been a point this community has raised before - more than just once and
about Whois and CoMo. I also happen to agree that the definitions of
Illegal content and content related to societal harm are rather open and
problematic for the SSAD - or for many other discussions as well.

Should we work on a letter - to the Board, the EPDB or both - reviving our
arguments about Whois and Content moderation and send it once again ? Are
there any volunteers who would like help me with this ?

Best,
Bruna

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:00 PM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> In my spare time, I got to read ICANN's letter dated 21 December 2020 to
> EDPB about compliance with GDPR.
>
>
> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/icann-org-comments-edpb-recs-21dec20-en.pdf
>
> There was one alarming issue raised in this letter, and since the Internet
> community has been mentioned, I think we should at least ask Bruna to raise
> it with the CEO next time she talks to him. I know we haven't drafted
> other  important comments but I haven't followed EPDP so will leave that to
> the members.
>
> P.2: "The SSAD is therefore instrumental for stopping and preventing the
> *dissemination of illegal content and in order to avoid related societal
> harm*s". This is alarming because the SSAD is serving ICANN's mission
> which has nothing to do with the regulation of illegal content and that is
> outside of its mission. I don't know what they mean by societal harm. We
> have many times told ICANN not to be careless when it comes to the limited
> function of WHOIS and relate it to content regulation. They said they
> wouldn't. But here they are definitely going into those territories.
>
> There are other matters in the letter as well but I haven't had the time
> to read closely, for example they are talking about "thick WHOIS" not
> happening because of the strict international transfer. I am not sure where
> epdp is at with discussing thick whois. Can we even have it in place?
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
>


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