[Ccwg-auctionproceeds] For your input - Open Internet definition

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 20 August 2017 at 02:41, Olawale Bakare <wales.baky at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> As 1 and 2 components fit into the openness of internet but the 3rd maybe
> undefinable. At the moment the "open content" is a mucky mix of political
> wheeler-dealing, in most developed and developing/under-developed nations.
>


​It doesn't need to be that over-thought.

At its simplest level, "open content" is the absence of meddling to block
or impede sites and services deemed "bad". What defines "bad" can take many
meanings, from political opposition to hate speech to illegal copying to
online gambling. But part of promoting an "open internet" is to resist such
blocking.

Now, just as free speech is not an absolute concept and often has
reasonable public-interest limits, so does "open content". Indeed,
currently such a debate is taking a very lively form in the US as domain
registrars and service providers shun the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer.
Currently the EFF is opposing acts to shut down the site
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression>.,
which is to some a very unpopular stance.

- Evan
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