November 2016 – Internet Rights and Principles Coalition

Internet Rights and Principles Coalition

Committed to making Internet work for human rights

IGF2016: IRPC Meeting with Amnesty International

“When death threats go viral: defending human rights in the face of orchestrated harassment campaign on social media”

Day 2, Wednesday 7 December, 10.45

The panel will be covering issues such as cyber harassment and other emerging forms of censorship, focusing particularly on the very concerning trend in Mexico, which is also emerging in other countries around the world. The panel will discuss how online service providers, regulators and civil society can manage these threats to ensure the protection of human rights online.

European net neutrality, at last?

LUCA BELLI and CHRISTOPHER T. MARSDEN 4 October 2016 – openDemocracy

Net neutrality is the principle mandating that internet traffic be managed in a non-discriminatory fashion, in order to fully safeguard internet users’ rights.
Starting from 30 August 2016, all EU and EEA members have finally obtained guidance on how to implement sound net neutrality provisions. The path has been tortuous and uneasy, starting from not neutrality, reaching an open Internet compromise and, finally, attaining net neutrality protections. In this article, we briefly recount how net neutrality evolved in Europe, and the significant progress achieved by the recently adopted net neutrality ‘Guidelines’.