{"id":4688,"date":"2011-06-13T05:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2011-06-13T05:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:43:14","slug":"repostun-declares-internet-access-a-human-right-but-fast-and-cheap-may-be-as-important-as-open-singularity-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/13\/repostun-declares-internet-access-a-human-right-but-fast-and-cheap-may-be-as-important-as-open-singularity-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open &#124; Singularity Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whether or not it has any strong hopes of enacting real change, the UN\u2019s report calls states to promote online freedoms in five key ways (paraphrased):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protect citizen\u2019s rights to speak anonymously on the internet.<\/li>\n<li>Refrain from building, using, or enforcing real-name databases that link online activity to user identity (even those used by popular companies like Facebook).<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge that national security and anti-terrorism concerns can\u2019t be used to restrict freedom of expression except in the most dire circumstances where there is an imminent and legitimate threat.<\/li>\n<li>Take meaningful steps to ensure the privacy of personal data.<\/li>\n<li>Decriminalize defamation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2011\/06\/12\/un-declares-internet-access-a-human-right-but-fast-and-cheap-may-be-as-important-as-open\/\">UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open | Singularity Hub<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not it has any strong hopes of enacting real change, the UN\u2019s report calls states to promote online freedoms in five key ways (paraphrased): Protect citizen\u2019s rights to speak anonymously on the internet. Refrain from building, using, or enforcing real-name databases that link online activity to user identity (even those used by popular &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/13\/repostun-declares-internet-access-a-human-right-but-fast-and-cheap-may-be-as-important-as-open-singularity-hub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open &#124; Singularity Hub&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}