<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 20 August 2017 at 02:41, Olawale Bakare </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:wales.baky@googlemail.com" target="_blank">wales.baky@googlemail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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<font color="#878787" face="roboto-light, helveticaneue-light, helveticaneue, sans-serif-light, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It doesn't need to be that over-thought.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">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 <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression">the EFF is opposing acts to shut down the site</a>., which is to some a very unpopular stance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"></div></div></div>
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