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The UN Unveils Plan Pushing For Worldwide Internet Censorship

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so.

In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now:

The UN’s “Sustainable Development Agenda” is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud

Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel

Fresh off the scene from those two epic embarrassments, the UN now wants to tell governments of the world how to censor the internet. I wish I was kidding.

From the Washington Post:

On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before.

 

But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work.

 

Under U.S. law — the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the world’s largest online platforms — intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally can’t be held responsible for what people do on them. But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only “license” those who agree to do so.

People are being harassed online, and the solution is to censor everything and license speech? Remarkable.

How that would actually work, we don’t know; the report is light on concrete, actionable policy. But it repeatedly suggests both that social networks need to opt-in to stronger anti-harassment regimes and that governments need to enforce them proactively.

 

At one point toward the end of the paper, the U.N. panel concludes that “political and governmental bodies need to use their licensing prerogative” to better protect human and women’s rights, only granting licenses to “those Telecoms and search engines” that “supervise content and its dissemination.”

So we’re supposed to be lectured about human rights from an organization that named Saudi Arabia head of its human rights panel? Got it.

Regardless of whether you think those are worthwhile ends, the implications are huge: It’s an attempt to transform the Web from a libertarian free-for-all to some kind of enforced social commons.

 

This U.N. report gets us no closer, alas: all but its most modest proposals are unfeasible. We can educate people about gender violence or teach “digital citizenship” in schools, but persuading social networks to police everything their users post is next to impossible. And even if it weren’t, there are serious implications for innovation and speech: According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CDA 230 — the law that exempts online intermediaries from this kind of policing — is basically what allowed modern social networks (and blogs, and comments, and forums, etc.) to come into being.

If we’re lucky, perhaps the Saudi religious police chief (yes, they have one) who went on a rampage against Twitter a couple of years ago, will be available to head up the project.

What a joke.

 

 

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Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:30 | 6597636 rsnoble
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Just because they are'pushing' for it, doesn't mean it will happen. 

They can try, and do, whatever they want.  There's gona be huge backlash, problem is every step they take towards pure shit, the more that people will hate the worthless bastards.  They can take their 10 mile long line of flags and stick them up their fucking asses. Sideways.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:33 | 6597641 Meat Hammer
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Refresh my memory... Who gave the UN the authority to make laws?

Exactly. Fuck em.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:20 | 6597738 NuYawkFrankie
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re Who gave the UN the authority to make laws?

Apparently, the Synogogue of Satan.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:55 | 6597649 NuYawkFrankie
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re UN Internet Cencorship

ZUN* has just drawn a line in the Gefilte Fish. They're starting to p-a-n-i-c..... 

(ZUN* - Zio UN )

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:55 | 6597687 JimmyRainbow
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and they (un) will get it.

if not this year or next year then in 6 or 10 years.

look at the young ones, app-addicted and no more interest in the system underneath

game over

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:55 | 6597689 Polymarkos
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The UN is as corrupt as the Obama Admin; always has been.

 

We should not expect anything from them but corruption, power grabbing, and criminal behavior. Given this is the case, who is surprised the UN wants to spy on the whole Earth?

 

Destroy the UN, destroy the oligarchies, kill the communists. For a better world.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 19:57 | 6597694 theyjustcantstop
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I've been waiting, and drooling over something like this.

ie. twitter, and facebook can hire 10-15 million illegals they fought for, to monitor messages  24-7-365.

ie. someone threatens a womans life on facebook 24hrs later shes dead, and the murder is traced back to sending a facebook message, threating her.

the womans lawyer finds out facebook didn't notify the corresponding authority soon enough.

the lawyer can't sue the govt., unless they went to un., so that puts criminal, and personal liability on to facebook, for a "womans life", do they matter?

how many millions of threats to women, and girls are made on facebook, twitter, and etc, daily?

ie " tobacco lawyers", are drooling also, all they need is one win in court.

next I want a class-action  constitutional suit denying 90% of americans of their 4th amendment rights, against, google, verision, att, and several hundred more co.'s.

I'm a self proclaimed average American male, when the un uses the word threaten, they open up a  legal pandoras box, a threat to my 13 yr. old grand-daughter, is  catish bs jab to a mature woman., and my estimate is 30% of threats to women, and girls, come from women, and girls.

it would be NWO, globalist irony, if saudia Arabia, took down twitter, and Facebook for women's rights violations.

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:13 | 6597741 Chris Dakota
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this isn't about girls or women, this is about silencing the truth about jews.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:03 | 6597708 Rabbi Blitzstein
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Hahaha! You goyim so stupid. We make you want ask permission do anything. Pretty soon we make you get license to fart. LOL! The United Nations is code word for international organized jewish crime syndicate. We jews getting tired of goyim spreading truth on internet. Time to shut it down. Soon international jewry put you stupid white goyim in prison for speak out against jewish mafia masquerading as ‘US Government’. But steal first all your assets. Get more shekels. Hehheh. Oy vey! Much kvetch coming. We keep you too busy be enjoying diversity and multiculturalism. Haha. Make you worry non-white refugee call in your number. In meantime we get you cheer for negros run ball up down field. Then you not have care in world. Oy! Oy! Oy!

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:02 | 6597710 silverer
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The minute they start that crap it will immediately make the value of the internet to me exactly ZERO, whereupon I will disconnect.  Done.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:08 | 6597729 Chris Dakota
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in the book "You Gentiles" (1924) Maurice Samuel writes:

"In everything, we are destroyers--even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief...We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."  (p. 155)

In 1928, Marcus Ravage, a Jewish Rothschild biographer wrote an essay entitled, "The Real Case Against the Jews."

 "You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely of the latest great war but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it."

(THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1928, Vol. 115, No. 3, pp. 346-350.)

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:31 | 6597788 Rabbi Blitzstein
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Hahaha! We always put in your face. But you not do anything. You piss pants be called anti-semite or racist. We make you whistle past grave yard. Our control of all venues of popular opinion make you stupid goyim stand like deer in headlights. Make you not believe what you see. You killing us with uncontollable laughter. HAHAHAHA!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:29 | 6597779 NuYawkFrankie
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re UN Unveils Plan Pushing For Worldwide Internet Censorship

THere will be no more questioning the 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 who died in the holohoax

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:41 | 6597807 lola jayne
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Women's legitimate issues are always used by the same tyrannical patriarchy that oppresses them and everyone in the first place.

This is another way of getting people to see harassment of women as a non-issue, when it absolutely is a legitimate issue. That said, they have enough info to go after harassers if they wanted to. But they don't. So it is a REAL issue -- bad male behavior -- that is turned into an excuse for more bad male behavior -- censorship. (Sorry it's patrichal/male to the core.) The quicker you guys wake up and support women's issues instead of using them like the UN is doing, the better for everyone.

As a woman, I am well aware of male harassment online, and it does fucking matter.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:49 | 6597819 Chris Dakota
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Im sure I have been a woman a lot longer than you have and it doesn't fucking matter.

if you don't like it then don't put yourself out there like a whore on social media.

If you don't like boys clubs stay the fuck out.

Things get rough in here but I don't respond to it or really give a damn about it.

grow up

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:50 | 6597822 gezley
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Why does it matter? Men harrass men online all the time as well, but we don't run off crying about it and dictating to the rest of the world how to stop it.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 20:50 | 6597823 Rabbi Blitzstein
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You are good goy shiska. Womens issues is code word for jewish persecution. We always use divide and conquer technique. Never fails. We get you white goyim fight between sexes. Make you help us with genocide of white race. Stupid goyim. HAHAHAHA!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 01:49 | 6598267 Shift For Brains
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Women have one overarching disadvantage to men and it doesn't revolve around size, muscle mass, etc.

It's the fact you all didn't grow up like boys do, in a social grouping where the weak are culled, where you learn to be smarter, faster, funnier, tougher, more useful, cooler, whatever...but you EARN it.You earn the respect of your peers. You don't get it by BEING.

It is a campfire and the campfire exists in every boardroom and chatroom there is;it's where pecking order is established and alpha males are incubated. Women who don't understand this will never understand what is going on, the kind of woman a normal man respects, etc. And you also will chase phantoms trying to stop the lamers who enjoy abusing women to build their non-existent self esteem.

So, no, as a matter of fact it doesn't fucking matter. Short of a real physical threat to their personal safety, which no one--man or woman--has to put up with, verbal abuse is really your problem and not ours.

The one thing I most resent in women, among all their wonderful attributes, is their absolutely magical idea that somehow the FEMALE model of relationship is the norm and men need to conform to it.

No, there is NO norm. You conform to that which you are able to and you absent yourself from that which you cannot. WE do not have to censor ourselves or the Net because YOU take offense. Can I be any plainer? Get big or stay at home.

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 21:43 | 6597927 antonina2
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Now the UN is a giant SJW?  OMG, like someone worte on here before, stop the planet, I want off!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:30 | 6598107 Rhal
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Internet censorship in the name of women's right is the same M. O. as the Patriot act suppressing the constitution in the name of "War on terror". Although in this case they didn't need to create a catalysing event, the media only needs to change public focus onto a few victims. Five victims can be twisted to change the course of a nation. Sort of like the focus on police shooting causing riots despite the fact that police involved shootings are down dramaticaly. 

A crusade of strawmen.

As usual, such crusades end up marginalising the group it claims to serve.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:15 | 6598188 DipshitMiddleCl...
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translation, too much anti-Semitism is becoming a problem and more people are waking up to the ZOG owned government

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:52 | 6598232 TeethVillage88s
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Video about Congress Corruption, and the wool over our eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrWTbT8u8c

5 Most Corrupt Bills Passed by Congress With Jennifer Briney

She has an Audio Program with over 100 shows and a Twitter.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 01:52 | 6598272 jack stephan
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[Bill Foster approaches the gang after they crashed] 

You missed. [Foster picks up the UZI and shoots the car] I missed too. 

[Foster threatens the gang member as he begs for his life. Foster shoots him in the ankle] You see, that's the concept.

Take some shooting lessons, asshole.

Good flick that falling down.  That is what it is.  1993, 1997, 2001, 2007, 2011, and to present day, its really all the same.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:50 | 6598642 Your Creator
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censor the left and the un.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 14:03 | 6599411 vladiki
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Years ago Gates said anonymity would be the death of the internet. He's right. It 'liberates' us to say and do things online we never would if identified as ourselves. A bit of that is good but the other 99% is bad. The internet doesn't need clumsy censorship, it needs REAL logins, then we self-censor.

Mon, 09/28/2015 - 04:33 | 6601046 onmail1
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UN is a puppet of pirate captain America

UN is obsolete

UN is of stone age

US & its euroPeons do not make decision in UN and attack other nations unilaterally 

There is no democracy in UN

It is better to leave UN now

USA has no regard for UN 

USA used UN as a smokescreen to become a world dictator and is now creating chaos , promoting terrorism , killing people for capturing wealth.

The best thing to do for poor nations is to develop nuclear arms , the ultimate security.

Forget UN

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