international telecommunications and
union and it's an agency of the united
nations the meeting next week to
negotiate a treaty on internet
regulation to discuss policies ranging
from cyber security
online fraud
but did the right script to criticize
the push for so-called internet central
government
and insist that the international treaty
that includes the influence of countries
like china
russia and authors could lead to greater
online censorship
and i to you says
its main objective is to increase
internet access to underserved
communities
which sent the school be achieved
through international regulations
and cannot be done without harming
internet freedoms
we've seen leaked proposals that clearly
and look at the internet that way you
know that
with the goal of the improving cyber
security whatever that means different
things different countries
could limit people's privacy in by you
know to be able to identify at
communication anywhere in the network
another proposal
waved limit free expression by
authorizing governments to shut down
communication networks for you know
in the name of national security
from your view as someone who buys to
protect civil liberties online
how much of a realistic threat do you
see in cyber security and cyber were and
how much do you see that being used as
kind of a used for booking them
i think it cyber security is such a
subjective concept that it's almost i
don't think it's useful
really use the term
that issue transparency that's coming up
soon she says
there's no transparency and all
individual governments have tried and
failed and now they want to use the you
win
to push for their big another from
muhammad who says governments will
basically use censorship to their
advantage crushing and suppressing all
voices in well how do you respond to the
critics who say that there's been a lack
of transparency in your process
will we have that on skype outside city
in a way to you at the hospital
initially
to have national consultations in many
countries have done so and hated the
press that item to send delegations that
to continue to explain what data about
and some conditioned on done so
if the country for once anyone who once
information can conduct his national
uh... government to get the information
and that the idea of trying to get
all one hundred ninety six inches
together
to agree
by consensus on
policies related to anything anything
related to content really
that alone
it's very difficult to imagine how you
could come to consensus that
would be acceptable to all players
general question about how much should
government's be able to watch what users
are doing online and what are their
motives there visit in
you know pursuing real criminals
in some normative sense or is it trying
to control people who might the engaged
in some kind of activism the government
doesn't like
seen reports that the internet has been
shut down inferior
and decode facts to say that there isn't
jamming today a look at what syria has
done to their internet it uses the
control arty exist
and there's a peaceful comments from now
means that is in fact dozens of
countries including china russia and
some arab states already restrict
internet access within their own borders
if these governments have greater
leverage over internet content service
providers if changes are made