[lacnog] Fwd: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers against censorship

Mie Dic 14 20:41:56 BRST 2011

Creo que este correo es tan efectivo como el correo donde Bill Gates
regala un dólar a cualquiera que hace forward del mensaje.

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin en gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars en netapp.com>
>> Date: 14 December 2011 02:11:32 GMT-02:00
>> To: "ietf en ietf.org" <ietf en ietf.org>
>> Subject: Fwd: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers
>> against censorship
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Dave Farber <dave en farber.net>
>>
>> Subject: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers against
>> censorship
>>
>> Date: December 14, 2011 4:12:20 GMT+02:00
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>> To: ip <ip en listbox.com>
>>
>> Reply-To: <dave en farber.net>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> From: Peter Eckersley
>>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
>>
>> Subject: EFF call for signatures from Internet Engineers against
>> censorship
>>
>> To: David Farber <dave en farber.net>
>>
>>
>>
>> (For the IP list)
>>
>>
>> Last year, EFF organized an open letter against Internet censorship
>>
>> legislation being considered by the US Senate
>>
>> (https://eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter).  Along with other
>> activists
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>> efforts, we successfully delayed that proposal, but need to update the
>>
>> letter
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>> for two bills, SOPA and PIPA, that are close to passing through US
>> Congress
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>> now.
>>
>>
>> If you would like to sign, please email me at pde en eff.org, with a one-line
>>
>> summary of what part of the Internet you helped to helped to design,
>>
>> implement, debug or run.
>>
>>
>> We need signatures by 8am GMT on Thursday (midnight Wednesday US Pacific,
>>
>> 3am
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>> US Eastern).  Also feel free to forward this to colleagues who played a
>> role
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>> in designing and building the network.
>>
>>
>> The updated letter's text is below:
>>
>>
>> We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network
>> called
>>
>> the Internet. We wrote and debugged the software; we defined the standards
>>
>> and protocols that talk over that network. Many of us invented parts of
>> it.
>>
>> We're just a little proud of the social and economic benefits that our
>>
>> project, the Internet, has brought with it.
>>
>>
>> Last year, many of us wrote to you and your colleagues to warn about the
>>
>> proposed "COICA" copyright and censorship legislation.  Today, we are
>>
>> writing again to reiterate our concerns about the SOPA and PIPA
>> derivatives
>>
>> of last year's bill, that are under consideration in the House and Senate.
>>
>> In many respects, these proposals are worse than the one we were alarmed
>> to
>>
>> read last year.
>>
>>
>> If enacted, either of these bills will create an environment of tremendous
>>
>> fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the
>>
>> credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet
>>
>> infrastructure. Regardless of recent amendments to SOPA, both bills will
>>
>> risk fragmenting the Internet's global domain name system (DNS) and have
>>
>> other capricious technical consequences.  In exchange for this, such
>>
>> legislation would engender censorship that will simultaneously be
>>
>> circumvented by deliberate infringers while hampering innocent parties'
>>
>> right and ability to communicate and express themselves online.
>>
>>
>> All censorship schemes impact speech beyond the category they were
>> intended
>>
>> to restrict, but these bills are particularly egregious in that regard
>>
>> because they cause entire domains to vanish from the Web, not just
>>
>> infringing pages or files.  Worse, an incredible range of useful,
>>
>> law-abiding sites can be blacklisted under these proposals.  In fact, it
>>
>> seems that this has already begun to happen under the nascent DHS/ICE
>>
>> seizures program.
>>
>>
>> Censorship of Internet infrastructure will inevitably cause network errors
>>
>> and security problems.  This is true in China, Iran and other countries
>>
>> that
>>
>> censor the network today; it will be just as true of American censorship.
>>
>> It is also true regardless of whether censorship is implemented via the
>>
>> DNS,
>>
>> proxies, firewalls, or any other method.  Types of network errors and
>>
>> insecurity that we wrestle with today will become more widespread, and
>> will
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>> affect sites other than those blacklisted by the American government.
>>
>>
>> The current bills -- SOPA explicitly and PIPA implicitly -- also threaten
>>
>> engineers who build Internet systems or offer services that are not
>> readily
>>
>> and automatically compliant with censorship actions by the U.S.
>> government.
>>
>> When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were
>>
>> reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or
>>
>> control.
>>
>> We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating
>> censorship-compliance
>>
>> as a design requirement for new Internet innovations.  This can only
>> damage
>>
>> the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power
>>
>> over what their citizens can read and publish.
>>
>>
>> The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open
>>
>> Internet, both domestically and abroad.  We cannot have a free and open
>>
>> Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political
>>
>> concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the
>>
>> leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly
>>
>> uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a
>>
>> neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its
>>
>> central in the network for censorship that advances its political and
>>
>> economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.
>>
>>
>> Senators, Congressmen, we believe the Internet is too important and too
>>
>> valuable to be endangered in this way, and implore you to put these bills
>>
>> aside.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Peter Eckersley                            pde en eff.org
>>
>> Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
>>
>> Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993
>>
>>
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