Cooperation SIG Report
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The Cooperation SIG held a discussion on internet content blocking and filtering at the APNIC Annual Member Meeting. They discussed the challenges of content blocking, including a lack of transparency and consultation processes. Presenters from Nepal, Japan, and Bangladesh discussed approaches in their countries and the technical issues with blocking. Speakers emphasized the need for wider consultation with stakeholders and educating governments on why blocking does not work. The end user perspective highlighted unintended consequences and suggested more consultative processes are needed when governments consider blocking content. The group concluded that education, dialogue, and cooperation within a multi-stakeholder framework are needed to address this issue.
Cooperation SIG Report
- 1. #apricot2019 2019 47 Cooperation SIG Report APNIC Annual Member Meeting Thursday, 28 February 2019 Chair: Dr Govind Co-Chair: Bikram Shrestha
- 2. #apricot2019 2019 47 Chair Election • Four nominations were received by the Secretariat. • Dr Rajesh R, Dr Govind , Joy Chan, Venkatraman • APNIC Secretariat conducted Coop SIG Chair election • Joy Chan was elected by higher no of count of votes • New Chair will serve a 2-year term beginning next APNIC meeting 2
- 3. #apricot2019 2019 47 Agenda- Speakers • Internet Content Blocking and Filtering – Challenges and Way Forward • Welcoming Remarks – Dr Govind • Bikram Shrestha - Status in Nepal • Akinori Maemura – Case Study, Japan • Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Technical approach • Rajnesh Singh – Wider consultation and educating the Government • Satish Babu- End user perspective • Open MIC – Q&A 3
- 4. #apricot2019 2019 47 Internet Content Blocking and Filtering- Challenges and way Forward • Enormous amount of content creation in all facets of human activities viz social , political, economic ,entertainment etc. • Triggered fake news, hate speeches, malicious and abusive content. • Internet an open, globally connected and needs no permission to communicate and create innovative applications and content. • What kind of content needs to flow in platforms, which type needs to be blocked/ filtered and what norms/ policies to followed. 4
- 5. #apricot2019 2019 47 Bikram Shrestha • ISPs and NSPs have different types of Challenges like No judicial authorization, Overarching order from the Ministry in Nepal. • No data protection laws or transparent mechanism for blocking or filtering. Provision of notice and take down in the law. • Need for effective policy in consultation with individual from all stakeholder of society including the private sector and relevant government Ministry. • Is blocking and filtering is an answer when most of the thing is accessible through VPN/ IPFS/ Google translate ? 5
- 6. #apricot2019 2019 47 Akinori Maemura –Japanese case study • Rise of Manga-Mura the piracy site of Manga (2017) • Cabinet decided to have anti-piracy measures (2018) • Task-Force formed to take countermeasures • Members divided –pro and against the blocking-no report • Secrecy of Communication be not violated-Article 21 • Longer term measures to contain the piracy like DRM, moral education , enforcement of good content etc.. 6
- 7. #apricot2019 2019 47 Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Technical approach • Child Online Protection , Religious Believe , Cultural Taste , Political Motivation , Fake News • Happens at National, ISP, Local and End user • Prefix Filtering URL/URI Filtering , DPI , Starvation of Bandwidth , Destination IP , DNS based Filtering , Shutdown / Denial of Access • Technologies evolving every moment. Can we solve these issues by filtering or Blocking? 7
- 8. #apricot2019 2019 47 Rajnesh Singh • Power shift from political class to Internet • Root cause comes attempting to controlling Internet • Dialogue needs to happen with governments and need to educate them continuously why it doesn't actually work. • ISOC has done a Child Online policies , mapping and report –Wide variation in AP region-age, definition etc. • Need for transparency & consultation process for any blocking and filtering 8
- 9. #apricot2019 2019 47 Satish Babu – End user perspective • What basically is content blocking, filtering and censoring? Limiting access to the content but not its physical removal • May be based on Illegal content, pornography, hate speech, copyright etc – highly variable and subjective • Most of the technical solutions ultimately undermine the security and stability of the internet because of unintended consequences and side effects. End user is impacted badly. • solutions exist to bypass or to sidestep, but there are implications of cost, performance, conflict with law enforcement agencies. • There's a need for consultative processes by the Government to take the citizens and civil society organisations into confidence. 9
- 10. #apricot2019 2019 47 Summary • Internet content blocking & filtering is a reality now. • There is a wide variation in type and variety of the content depending upon the context and how we define it. • Need to work with conflicting requirements of users, service providers, technical, network community, policymakers from the point of view of compliance, Specially with the Governments. • Manila principles are quite relevant in this context. • Way forward may be to have a education ,dialogue, collaboration, cooperation within the multi stakeholder environment. 10
- 11. #apricot2019 2019 47 11 Thank You
- 12. 201947 #apricot2019 18 – 28 February 2019 DAEJEON SOUTHKOREA