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    <p>Hi all and thanks Brian for the link to this nytimes article. It
      is truly alarming, the amount of harm one person with a grudge can
      inflict under the current way content is managed (or not managed)
      on the Internet. Anybody find themselves caught in this kind of
      attack. It is truly scary.</p>
    <p>No one wants to handcuff the Internet, but I think states are
      starting to wake up to the need to do something to curb such
      abuses. The EU is currently updating it's e-Commerce directive
      with something call the Digital Services Act (DSA). Some members
      of the EU Some member EU states are also working on their own
      versions of such legislation. Hopefully it will be the start to
      curbing this kind of abuse.</p>
    <p> I have excepted a small explanation. Bolding is mine. The full
      document, which is an ICANN briefing on this issue is available
      there is anyone wants to read further</p>
    <p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ge-004-15jul20-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ge-004-15jul20-en.pdf</a><br>
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    <p>What will the DSA likely contain?
      The DSA will not prescribe what illegal content is. That decision
      will remain with member
      states. Rather, it will put in place a system, the “notice and
      action” mechanism, to ensure that
      online services have similar processes to remove content flagged
      as illegal. Key principles of
      the e-Commerce Directive will most likely be maintained in the
      DSA. Website hosts and “digital
      lockers” will not have “editorial responsibility” or be made
      responsible for users’ content; and
      EU member states will continue to be banned from forcing platforms
      to have general
      monitoring obligations on content.<b><br>
      </b></p>
    <p><b>However, large platforms may be considered to have a special
        responsibility and could be
        subject to additional rules, either through legislation or
        additional self-regulation/co-regulation.
      </b>This could be the case for content such as disinformation
      (“fake news”). The EU is conscious
      of the difficulty in balancing the desire to remove unwanted
      content with freedom of
      expression. It is therefore likely to limit its intervention to
      disinformation that has malicious
      intent designed to deceive the public or polarize public opinion,
      for example, through
      coordinated disinformation campaigns by state and non-state
      actors. <br>
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    <p>.... The European Commission has launched an open consultation,
      asking organizations and the
      public about the proposed approach. The consultation includes
      questions on digital service
      providers’ experience with removing the sale of illegal goods
      online; their experience with
      illegal content during the COVID-19 crisis; how services approach
      harmful but not illegal
      content, including disinformation, cyberbullying, and violence
      against women online; and the
      systems introduced by digital services to report unwanted content</p>
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    <p>Marita<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/13/2021 5:17 PM, Brian Beaton
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          sure makes it difficult when I read of how it is now being
          used for such disruptive and vengeful activities as this NY
          Times story highlights .. Very scary stuff ..</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 2:45
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                    <td>Re: [Advisors] Internet governance outlook 2021</td>
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                    <td>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:23:55 -0800</td>
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                    <td>Daryl Hobbs <a
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                    <td>Marita Moll <a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net"
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              <div dir="auto">I think it’s called the war on
                information! No doubt whoever controls informative
                controls us! Like the war on drugs it’s going to be
                messy and don’t expect governments to come to your
                rescue. They are just as vulnerable as we are. Education
                and persistence are two weapons we have but it has to be
                a combination of both to prevent attacks on all of us.
                 ;-D<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 13, 2021
                    at 8:35 AM Marita Moll <<a
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                      <p>Hello advisors. There can be no doubt that it
                        is a turbulent world out there right now -- and
                        the Internet, as the world's critical
                        communications medium, is also experiencing an
                        increase in potential disruptions. The author of
                        this article, W<span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a
                            href="http://www.circleid.com/members/5851/"
style="outline:none;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,51,102);border-bottom:1px
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                            moz-do-not-send="true">olfgang Kleinwächter</a>,
                          Professor Emeritus at the University of Aarhus</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">
                        </span><span>is a member of the Global
                          Commission on Stability in Cyberspace, was a
                          member of the ICANN Board (2013 – 2015) and
                          served as Special Ambassador for the Net
                          Mundial Initiative (2014 – 2016).</span> It is
                        a great overview of Internet-related activities
                        around the world that we might want to be aware
                        of -- especially around the issue of
                        fragmentation.<br>
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                      <p><span>"... if somebody would have expected that
                          the Covid-19-Disaster is a wake-up call for
                          the world to be more united, work hand in
                          hand, and pool resources reducing risks of a
                          borderless threat, this "somebody" was wrong.
                          2020 was dominated by "My country first." The
                          global cyberspace was filled with building new
                          barriers, widening old gaps, growing mistrust,
                          nasty cyberattacks, more cybercrime and the
                          first Internet-based drone-war in the
                          Caucasian mountains. What about 2021? Will the
                          pendulum swing back? Or will the digital
                          cacophony continue to grow in a splintering
                          Internet?"</span></p>
                      <p><a
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210108-internet-governance-outlook-2021-digital-cacaphony/"
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                            face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210108-internet-governance-outlook-2021-digital-cacaphony/</font></a></p>
                      <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita</font><br>
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