Ligue ODEBI

Suite au vote de l’amendement 138 du parlement européen, Nicolas Sarkozy avait écrit à José Manuel Barroso, pour lui demander de faire supprimer cet amendement.
La suite: La commission a rejeté cette manoeuvre du président français:
« De l’avis de la Commission, cet amendement est un rappel important des principes juridiques clés inhérents à l’ordre juridique de l’Union européenne, en particulier des droits fondamentaux des citoyens ».

Numerous of amendments regarding the Telecom Package will be examined by the European Parliament this 24 September.
The number of amendments, the complexity of the texts, and the fact that some of those amendments have not been published before, may harms to a real european democratic debate.

The Odebi Ligue denounces the opacity of a system which is similar to the one who exists in France, and where the government is negotiating in the dark a project of “Graduated Response” for many months with industry players.

Furthermore, the Ligue is afraid that, except for the Green and GUE groups, the votes would have been secretly negotiated before.

Odebi would like the public and deputies to pay attention to the following three amendments : 133, 138, 166. Those amendments simply reaffirm fundamental rights of the citizens in the European law like, they shall not suffer of mass surveillance or any attempts to their privacy, to their freedom of speech and information, or to their right to due process.

Let us be clear : either MEPs will vote these amendments guaranteeing the fundamental rights of European citizens, either they will vote against it. In the last case, they would fully illustrate the vision the vision of Europe that numerous citizens have : ie the vision of a kind of big supermarket where lobbies negotiate laws dedicated to defend their own economic interests in total violation of the fundamental rights of citizens, and with the complicity of number of politicians.

Such behavior of collaboration with the business lobbies are like a stop point to the European construction.

Odebi, co-organizer of the International Day of Action “Freedom not Fear” planed on October 11, calls on all participating organizations to pay particular attention to the vote of these amendments, and calls on all organizations of European countries who are not yet participating to “Freedom Not Fear” movement to join the international mobilization in order to get a better fight against attacks that the Internet and fundamental rights are suffering today.
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La Ligue Odebi
http://www.odebi.org
[1]Freedom not fear France: http://www.HumanRights21.org
[2]Freedom not fear international: http://www.freedom-not-fear.eu

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Just two mails sent by a spanish and a french MEP: No comment.

1 The spanish Toubon

Mail from Guardans.
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Dear Colleagues,

I’m sorry to bother you with a collective email.

As it is happening more and more often when we have to decide on
anything related to the internet, you are receiving these days plenty of
emails regarding tomorrow’s vote on the telecomm package. I am convinced
you will reject that sort of pressure and threats, as you would do if
they were coming from fundamentalists of other sorts, or from some of
the business lobbies most of you critize so often. And vote whatever you
think is right, balanced and reasonable in the internet era. We may
disagree on some issues, but anybody lying about what the texts
submitted to vote really say, should not be taken into account.

In this context of serioussness, let me underline the importance of
rejecting Amendment 138, fwhich bears the signature of a long list of
very respectful colleagues, starting with Guy Bono.

There is a principle we should consider: Internet may require sometimes
different rules from those which apply to our squares and streets. But
what can be called the “internet world” cannot be a less safer place
than the phisical world we live in.

For whatever reasons, which is up to the signatories to explain, what
this amendment says is: no restriction whatsoever can exist in internet
to the “rights and freedoms” if it is not “previously” authorized by a
judge, with the only exception of criminal law, and this even in a
restrictive manner. If this was applied to our police forces in our
motorways and roads; to our school teachers and academic authorities at
schools and universities; to our urban planning authorities in our
cities and villages; to any of our state authorities in any field,and in
any level, what would the world look like? We would perhaps be under a
government by Judges, if that is possible. Judges are there to review
decisions, and to sanction unfair abuses of authority or power or
illegal acts. And, indeed, in certain cases, to suspend acts from the
competent authorities. But judges are NOT there to be permanentlyy
consulted by authorites before they do whatever the law allows them to
do!

There will be an oral Amendment, which will restrict this text to
“fundamental rights and freedoms”. If the oral amendment is accepted,
the text would make perhaps some sense. If that oral amendement is not
accepted or approved, please vote against ethe three parts of AM. 138.

Kindly, and respectfully yours

Ignasi Guardans, MEP

European Parliament
ASP 08G 152
60, rue Wiertz
B-1047 Brussels

2 The french Toubon

From: TOUBON Jacques
Sent: 23 September 2008 18:38
To: …
Cc: MEP-PPE-DE
Subject: In view of the group meeting: Telecom Package
Importance: High

Dear …

I would like to share with you my concern about the amendment 138 of
BONO and the oral amendment of Trautmann.

I consider that these amendments lead to:

* prevent effective sanctions against pedopornography online in
the name of the freedom of expression and information;
* introduce a distinction and a hierarchy between the different
categories of fundamental rights holders in privileging the ones of
end-users of electronic communications networks and services;
* Are contradictory with the directive 2000/31 on e-commerce.

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A German journalist has been jailed in Berlin for the publication of a simple link to an article posted on the voltaire network website:

Edit: voltairenet.org being online again, here are the links to the articles you could not read when the website was down:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article157407.html
http://www.voltairenet.org/article143460.html

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After Voltairenet.org [1], it is now the website of Reporters Without Borders which is hacked, while the organization is mobilized against the Chinese regime on the eve of the opening of the Olympic games.

Zataz.com found very quickly that the attack was launched Thursday, August 7 at 5:59, from Taiwan [2], and has made clear that the infested machines saw their svchost.exe connected to the IP address 61.149.230.112:80 [3].

Zataz highlighted that this address can be found on servers belonging to the Chinese government [4].

In France, authorities have banned Reporters Without Borders to demonstrate in front of the chinese embassy, while such events were allowed in seven countries in Europe and North America. “France makes fun of China, which delineates areas reserved for demonstrations in Beijing, but does exactly the same thing” replied the organization[5].

As Thierry Meyssan (VoltaireNet.org) [6] said after such attacks were launched by USA and Israel: “Nobody is immune:Do not rely on the french government to defend yourself if your website is attacked by these States. ”

RSF has therefore filed an action to the administrative court, who lifted the ban, despite the arguments of the police prefect Marcel Gaudin [8].

The police, however, have cordoned off the area to try to prevent demonstrators from reaching the chinese embassy… in vain. [9]

“This is the first time in my life that I see police officers refusing to comply with a court decision. This is unacceptable,” said Robert Menard.

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Reporters Without Borders Press release 1st February 2008 :

Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders have obtained a copy of a directive issued by the authorities responsible for Internet censorship in an attempt to prevent online circulation of the report “Journey to the Heart of Internet censorship (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23924),” which the two organisations issued on 10 October 2007.
“We condemn the censorship of any information that aims to increase awareness of the real situation of the Internet in China,” the two organisations said. “The rights of Chinese Internet users are systematically violated by the government, although we are now only six months away from the Olympic Games.”

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According to Reporters without borders:

Shock at beating death of executive who filmed police violence with mobile phone

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the way a construction company executive, Wei Wenhua, was beaten to death by municipal law enforcement officers known as “chengguan” in Tianmen, in the province of Hubei, on 7 January when he used his mobile phone camera to film them in a violent clash with protesters.

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La Ligue ODEBI appelle l’ensemble des internautes à prendre conscience des graves dangers que font peser les accords signés par les professionnels de l’internet et les industries culturelles sur les droits et libertés des français:

En substance, les accords comportent les points suivants:
Mise en place d’un système de riposte graduée à l’encontre des téléchargeurs, avec fermeture de leur accès à internet, soit une privation de droits civiques numériques, et qui plus est privation de ces droits pour toute une famille dans le cas d’un accès unique à internet pour un foyer donné, sanctionnant par là même des personnes innocentes.
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Après les réactions allemandes, italiennes et françaises, c’est au tour des partis pirates d’Allemagne, d’Espagne, du Royaume Uni, de Suède, d’Autriche, de Pologne, du Chili, de Hollande, et des Etats Unis de dénoncer le projet de censure et de filtrage du net par le biais d’un communiqué commun:

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Les déclarations du commissaire européen Franco Frattini provoquent la colère d’associations de défense des libertés civiles en France et en Italie.

Dans son communiqué du 11 septembre l’ALCEI (Electronic Frontiers Italy) fustigeait les déclarations de Franco Frattini, qui projette de faire filtrer, voire d’interdire l’usage, de certains mots sur internet, à des fins de lutte anti-tedrroriste : “We are concerned – but unfortunately not surprised – by EU Commissioner Frattini’s proposal to impose selective censorship on words used on the internet. «I do intend» – said Mr. Frattini to Reuters on September 10, 2007 – «to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector … on how it may be possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism».

Mr. Frattini’s suggestion is unacceptable, extremely dangerous and a serious threat against free speech. The “internet-teaches-how-to-make bombs” nonsense has been around since the net’s early years. Along with “copyright infringements” and misrepresented child protection urges – as ALCEI denounced over ten years ago. The “internet-bomb” issue has always been one of the excuses to invoke censorship and repression.“[1]

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Ce premier octobre, le Vice-président de la Commission Européenne chargé des affaires relevant du domaine de la “Liberté, Sécurité et Justice” a fait des propositions destinées à renforcer la lutte anti-terroriste aux ministres européens de la justice et de l’intérieur.
Il serait proposé de “fermer” des sites pouvant contenir par exemple des instructions permettant la réalisation de bombes. [1]
Michèle Alliot-Marie s’est déclarée personnellement favorable à ces mesures.

Pour la Ligue Odebi, cette politique est irréaliste, et dangereuse pour les libertés individuelles : cela mènerait nécessairement à imposer aux FAI européens de filtrer le net aux frontières de l’Union Européenne.

Le Vice-président Frattini avait par ailleurs déclaré [2] le 10 septembre dernier qu’il avait ” la ferme intention d’entreprendre une étude avec le secteur privé (…) sur les moyens technologiques d’empêcher des gens d’utiliser et de chercher des mots dangereux comme ‘bombe’, ‘tuer’, ‘génocide’ ou ‘terrorisme’” : Si demander aux moteurs de recherche de filtrer certaines expressions est techniquement possible, on voit assez mal comment Franco Frattini peut espérer -techniquement- empêcher les internautes (voire les journalistes) d’utiliser certains mots. Sur le fond, au-delà de l’aspect technique, la volonté de prohiber l’usage de certains mots relève d’un obscurantisme d’un autre âge.
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Un article du Figaro annonçait ce matin que TF1 avait l’intention de poursuivre les sites de partage vidéo Youtube et Dailymotion : ” Les dirigeants de TF1 ont décidé de porter plainte contre le site. D’après nos informations, une assignation pour « utilisation non autorisée de contenus sous droits d’auteurs » et « complicité de contrefaçon par fourniture de moyens » devrait être déposée à la mi-juillet. Une autre plainte, visant la filiale française de YouTube (propriété du géant Google), sera déposée au cours de l’été.”

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La vidéo de la dernière d’Arrêt sur Images a disparu du site france5.fr [1]. Cette ‘dernière’ commençait par un sujet sur la vidéo de Nicolas Sarkozy au G8, présentée par une chaîne de télévision étrangère comme démontrant l’état d’ébriété du Président français. Cette vidéo de Nicolas Sarkozy avait ensuite été uploadée, puis visionnée plus de 15 millions de fois sur internet.
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