[ICANN-EU] Re: Article 31

["Constantine S. Chassapis" <cschassapis@acm.org>]

Dear Andy,

Yes, you are absolutely correct! Not only you did not
dampen my enthusiasm, but you made it stronger. Yes,
during that night, around three o'clock, that I wrote the A31
email, I somehow missed A19. YES! A19 is a strong
article! But, is it sufficient?

My concern is, how we will secure cyberspace
for all of us?  Cyberspace -- for the moment the Internet --
is not a classical medium! It is not a telephone company! It
is not a newspaper, It is not a book, It is all these and many
more (some say it is a global brain!). So a definition is needed, 
and I am not sure that A19 guarantees 
a fair naming of things first, (in other words, some gov 
or other org may say to you in legalese or other dialect, "sorry my 
friend, Internet is not a medium, it is ... a business platform"
or whatever!) and second, note that: TV is a classical
medium, so it falls in A19's basin of attraction. You will agree 
with me that people do not get  their fair portion of TV-time when
expressing their ideas (if they ever are offered TV-time), etc, etc.

So, our brave new world (that is coming) since it possesses new
entities, maybe as well need new definitions, and maybe additional
principles.

I think I will put all articles in my site: An article per page!

Sincerely,
Constantin Chassapis


P.S. by the way, did you know that cyber comes from the greek
cybernitis, that means governor? I dont like the word cyberspace
I am open to suggestions! Let's redefine our future!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew Bloch <abloch@alum.mit.edu>
To: Constantine S. Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [icann-candidates] Re: [ICANN-EU] Article 31


> Constantine,
> 
> At the risk of dampening your enthusiasm...
> 
> I just went and browsed through the Universal Declaration of Human 
> Rights
> (available at in many languages at http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm).
> 
> Look at Article 19:
> | Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
> | expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
> | without interference and to seek, receive and impart
> | information and ideas through any media and regardless
> | of frontiers.
> 
> "freedom ... to see, receive and impart information and ideas through any
> media and regardless of frontiers"
> ... sounds a lot like your Article 31.
> 
> So, instead of promoting a new Article 31, we should promote application 
> of Article 19 to the Internet.
> 
> I think I'm going to put Article 19 on my web page.
> 
> Andy Bloch