Petition for the immediate withdrawal of the Licensing Regime

Rory

/ #17

2013-06-01 12:26


http://www.ip-watch.org/2011/06/07/un-expert-no-government-internet-restrictions-for-political-reasons-iprs/

Governments should refrain from restricting the flow of information on the internet, and the private sector should not be in charge of policing it, a United Nations advisor on freedom of opinion and expression said last week in a report. (June 2011)

Frank La Rue of Guatemala, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, warned against the attempts by some governments to muzzle information on internet. In his report [pdf], La Rue stressed that “the full guarantee of the right to freedom of expression must be the norm, and any limitation considered as an exception, and that this principle should never be
reversed.”