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