Web creator slams laws against Internet piracy
accuses France, United Kingdom and the United States to cut the freedom of citizens
The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Prince of Asturias Award among countless other awards, in a long article published in Scientific American Blasts the laws of France, the United Kingdom and the United States adopted to combat Internet piracy.
In the article entitled Long Live the Web: a call for continued neutrality and open standards, Berners-Lee does not bite your tongue and get to compare the violation of rights humans in China and other countries dictatorial with cutting rights on the Internet that are suffering citizens of democracies like France, UK and USA. "Totalitarian governments are not the only ones who violate the rights on the Internet for its citizens," says the scientist. "In France a law created in 2009, the call Hadopi, allows the government to disconnect from the Internet to a home for a year if a household member is charged by a company to have music or video taken." Berners-Lee
also reminds that Digital UK Economy Act, approved in April, authorizes the government to order an ISP to unveil the name of an Internet subscriber if it appears in a list of suspects for having violated intellectual property laws. "In September, the United States Senate," says the inventor of the Web, "was approved and Combating Counterfeits Online Infringement Act, which authorizes the government to create a blacklist of sites, with headquarters in the U.S. or not, having been accused of violating the rights of copyright . In all these cases, failure to protect the citizens before they are disconnected or locked pages.
And ends: "Given the different ways the Web is now crucial in our lives and our work, the disconnection is a form of deprivation of our freedom. Returning to the Constitution, perhaps we should now say:" No person or private organization must be connected to others without legal process and without the presumption of innocence. "
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