Dear Sacha,
Just noticed that my name is not in the endorsement list. Can you fix that?
Thanks,
Arfa
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:09:41 +0700, Sacha Jotisalikorn wrote
> Dear all,
>
> On behalf of the Content Group please find attached the final revised
> Tokyo statement. Thanks to those who gave specific suggestions for
> revisions: Patcha, Adam, Izumi, Chat, Guarab, Leelangi, Sakiyama. And
> thanks to all who have contributed comments and thoughts to the ongoing
> discussions related to point 13.
>
> We have in some way or another incorporated almost all those other
> revisions that are not related to point 13. We have also reworked the
> preamble a bit to make it read better.
>
> Regarding point 13 we took all the proposals into consideration and
> narrowed it down to the original wording (Chun/Patcha) and Izumi's
> suggested modification, since these both these proposals received
> support from others. We also like the formulations we used in our
> Bangkok and CONGO statements and for which have already received wide
> endorsement. Therefore we have decided to incorporate some of those
> wordings and then lead into what we have from Tokyo. To try to make a
> constructive resolution to our impasse we suggest to use both "threaten"
> and "compromise" together. They don't contradict each other and can
> complement each other. So it would be "threaten/compromise."
>
> So for point 13:
>
> "13. Surveillance on people by governments, consumers by
> entrepreneurs, employees by employers, by utilizing new information
> and communication technologies are a severe threat to human rights.
> We call on all parties to take appropriate measures to protect the
> right to privacy including freedom from surveillance at all levels
> of information society. We are opposed to any kind of censorship
> imposed by anyone which restricts freedom of expression.
>
> Privacy and personal security should be ensured in the information
> society
> when promoting ICTs. Values of human rights, democracy, and freedom
> of expression should never be threatened/compromised by any kind of
surveillance
> and censorship."
>
> I hope everyone can live with that since this is not a legal document
> and we are not drafting legal statutes.
>
> Yes, point 13 raises issues but we are not in a position to discuss them
> fully in this statement. These implications--how can we support our
> basic stand on freedom of expression, right to privacy and freedom from
> surveillance while acknowledging that we have concerns about incitement
> to hatred, or acts/threats of deliberate harm, slander etc and how
> we can address it--have popped up before in discussions in the
> Bangkok meetings and Tokyo and will likely come up again in future
occasions.
>
> I guess we should try to find more venues to discuss this and if we are
> lucky come up with some common position on it in new statements or
> papers.
>
> We hope that now we can continue to add remaining endorsements. Could
> you please send your endorsement back to me as soon as possible--Monday
> 17 5:00 pm Bangkok time latest. We would like to have as many more
> endorsements as possible by then so that those going to P2 can take the
> statement and endorsements with them. We don't want to encourage late
> arriving endorsements but we will add them later and send updates to
> our friends at P2, if that's the case.
>
> Those going to P2 (or already there) could you please let me know who
> you are so that we can send you any updates on this Tokyo statement via
> email and our website.
>
> In case some of those who have already endorsed are not on this mail
> list I will forward this to endorsers in a separate message.
>
> All best regards,
>
> Sacha Jotisalikorn
> On behalf of the Content Group
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