[ICANN-EU] Answers to Ralf Möbius questions by a candidate

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

Here are my answers:

> Good morning,
> 
> after a long discussion about democracy and the dangers of political and
> industrial domination of the net, I would like to ask you a few qestions
> about internet and censorship.
> 
> 1. Do you think there should be a general censorship in the www, filtering
> certain contents ?

If your question gives to 'general censorship'  the meaning of a 'well-
estabilished pratices of censorship'  I think it will be absolutely wrong. 
But please note that this does not mean that there should/will be no 
censorship at all.
We should allow subject who are concerned to place censorship to do so  if 
they feel to. Censorship is a feel which is related with 'cultural diversities' and 
very close to each single individual rather than even the community (s)he 
belongs to. So, on the ICANN side, we should put in place tools which better 
allows to classify internet content rather than endorse ready-made 
censorship pratices.  

> 
> 2. If so, isn`t the danger of censorship higher than any influence of
> extremist contents?
> 

As I was telling about in previous response we should leave each entity to 
manage their balance of risks or benefits in applying censorship. 
We (as ICANN) cannot and must not make a choice for any individual out 
there. 

> 3. Isn`t it sufficient, that the criminal law and terms of resposibility for
> web-contents of each country ensure that contents in the net follow a
> minimum standard of what we call civilization?

It will not be 'human' laws that that will give us what we call 'civilization'. 
It will be the mixture of several different cultures into a community.
The net allows for a quicker mix of cultures in shorter time rather than 
physical ethnic moves from country to country and this mix will set
level of what we call 'civilization'.  
Yes, it is entropy.. Again  :)

Best regards
Giorgio Griffini