TGC internet sitesine saldırıyı kınadı

Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti, resmi internet sitesinin ”hacklenmesinin” basın özgürlüğüne tahammülsüzlüğün yeni bir örneği olduğunu belirterek şu açıklamayı yaptı:

“Basın özgürlüğüne ve düşünceyi ifade özgürlüğüne tahammülsüzlüğün yeni bir örneğini yaşadık. Bu girişim Türkiye’de cezaevlerinde 68 gazetecinin tutuklu olmasını, gazetecilerle ilgili 2 bin dava ve 4 bin soruşturma açılmasını yok saymanın bir başka biçimidir. Basın özgürlüğü ve gazetecilerle ilgili baskılar konusunda 1946 yılından bu yana çalışan Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti, meslekteki her görüşten tüm gazetecileri kapsayan ve kucaklayan çalışmalarını sürdürmeye kararlıdır. Her türlü tehdit ve hedef gösterme, Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti’ni doğru bildiği yoldan döndürmeye yetmeyecektir.“

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As WikiLeaks Spawns a Movement UN Seeks Global Internet Regulation

After unprecedented leaks of classified government and military information leaked by WikiLeaks shake up the world of politics and public perception of worldwide authorities, and US Government in particular, UN is seeking global effort at Internet regulation.

The call came from representatives of Brazil on a UN meeting held last Wednesday in New York. They want to create an international body of government representatives which would form global standards for policing the Internet, but emphasized that this isn’t a call for a takeover of the Internet.

The call was apparently supported by India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia, but US, UK, Australia, Belgium and Canada as well as representatives of business and communities had some reservations due to what they described as risks of creating a new group that might isolate itself from the feedback of the general public, the industry and community users.

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There was also debate over the meaning of “enhanced cooperation” and the role of existing organizations including the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), ICANN and ITU.

The idea of a governmental body for policing the internet was criticized by Google, the International Chamber of Commerce, and The Internet Society.

Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and the “father of the internet” Vint Cerf said that they “don’t believe governments should be allowed to grant themselves a monopoly on Internet governance” and that “the current bottoms-up, open approach works–protecting users from vested interests and enabling rapid innovation”.

The call for global internet regulation comes in reaction to “challenges such as WikiLeaks” which has spearheaded what is beginning to look like a movement for enforcing governmental transparency and openness by leaking secret information. In addition to an earlier launched WikiLeaks offshoot called OpenLeaks, journalists, activists and communication professionals have this week launched an european offshoot at BrusselslLeaks.com. It aims to leak information about the inner workings of the EU.

Swedish national television SVT just debuted WikiRebels, a riveting documentary about WikiLeaks and its rise to worldwide influence. It features a number of highly emotional scenes depicting the monstrous acts committed by the US Military in the middle east wars, overlaid with journalists’ commentary, and is quickly spreading across the internet.

Meanwhile, Julian Assange was released from prison after the court in London accepted the bail paid by a documentary film maker Michael Moore. The man responsible for the actual act of leaking the information from the US intelligence network, Bradley Manning, is still held in solitary confinement despite not yet being accused of any crime, in conditions which a recent Saloon article compares to torture.

Sources: IT News,  Huffington Post

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Syria Reported to be Shutting Internet Down

With social wildfire that has gone from Tunis to Algeria to Libya and now into Egypt, other countries in the Middle East must be feeling a bit of pressure. To ensure that revolts don’t break out, Syria is reported to have shut down the Internet in their country as well as what Egypt did earlier today.

Syria is definitely a country that could promote a rebellion. It is one of the actual tyrants in the Middle East where people have no rights, a smart, young population and a general fear of the Internet.

Despite these reports, Reuters claims that Internet hasn’t been blocked at the ISP level. Instead, what Syria has done is tightened its Internet rules. They’ve banned programs like eBuddy and Nimbuzz which allow Facebook chat on mobile phones.

However, there are some people in the country who are still obviously talking to people still on Facebook.

This has some believing that Syria is beginning to cut the Internet, but hasn’t completed the job yet. In other words, they are beginning to remove programs from their servers and make it near impossible to use the Internet.

With so many countries revolting in the Arab world, it is anticipated that these countries will do things. However, how the people are going to respond to having even more of their rights restricted is unsure.

As David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer said to the New York Times, the Internet is “a fundamental right, and it’s very sad if it’s denied to citizens of Egypt or any country.”

He might just be right.

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