ITU threatens the existance of the Open Internet

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The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) will be expanding its capabilities this December 2012. If expanded governments will be given the right to control the internet and monitor what users view. Further more they hope to bring in a payment system where websites would have to Pay governments for the viewers they get. And viewers will also have to Pay governments as well. This system will cripple the Internet as we know it.

The Government of Sri Lanka is hosting the ITU meetings and its proceedings and is a active supporter of these new regulations. Fightforthefuture.org has initiated a petition at https://www.whatistheitu.org/?ref=fftf

Right now many people around the world have joined hands to write petitions against this action.

They ask that you send the below e-mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

NOTE : Currently TRC has blocked this e-mail as spam! Is our voice spam!!?

Dear Sir / Madam,

At the upcoming WCIT conference in Dubai, governments will consider proposals to update the ITU’s underlying treaty. Some proposals would expand the ITU’s mandate in ways that could threaten Internet openness and innovation, increase access costs, and erode human rights online.

The internet is powerful tool for communication, driving economic development, and expanding human rights. Discussions about the future of the internet should involve as many stakeholders as possible including government officials, technology experts, businesses leaders, civil society, and human rights organizations.

I write to ask that you:
-Reject proposals at WCIT that would expand ITU authority to areas of Internet governance especially those that affect the exercise of human rights online;
-Release to the public proposals that our country or other countries will make at the WCIT; and
-Solicit input from your citizens and experts on proposals, including by inviting a range of stakeholders to participate in our country’s delegation.

The ITU has done much good in the world and I applaud these efforts. I join a chorus of voices from around the globe, however, who feel strongly that policy decisions about the Internet should be made in a transparent manner with genuine multistakeholder participation from civil society, governments, and the private sector, not by the ITU.

Sincerely,

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