Responsible firms ‘should maintain WikiLeaks links’
Jan 27, 2011 Technology companies have been urged not to withdraw their services from WikiLeaks after several businesses boycotted the organization under government pressure. When WikiLeaks published thousands of US embassy cables recently, Amazon cancelled its web-hosting service to the organization, the WikiLeaks domain name was withdrawn by its US-based provider EveryDNS, and the Swiss bank account of its founder Julian Assange was shut. The privacy and free speech Global Network Initiative (GNI), however, has said companies should act more responsibly by adhering to their own terms of use, which should be ‘consistent with freedom of expression and privacy implications’.
David Kaye December 23, 2020 09:22
As the European Commission’s recent Digital Services Act demonstrates, lawmakers around the world are scrambling, with good reason, to address the extremism, disinformation, and manipulation that have consumed the digital ecosystem, distorted public discourse, and deepened polarization in recent years. And yet their efforts carry risks. Just as rules governing online domains can bolster democracy by promoting inclusive, informed debate, they can also be abused to inhibit freedom of expression.
Fortunately, international human rights law offers a set of principles that can guide regulation in a way that addresses toxic content while promoting freedom of expression. To help illuminate this process, our organization, the Global Network Initiative (GNI), recently brought together experts from across industry and the human-rights community to examine scores of content-regulation initiatives in more than a dozen countries, and provide relevant
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