Il rinvio dell’esame del disegno di legge è un buon risultato anche se provvisorio. È dunque importante che l’opinione pubblica non sia inerte nella consapevolezza che una contrazione della libertà di informazione sarebbe il primo passo di una deriva illiberale.

Ecco perché ci siamo dati appuntamento al Teatro Valle di Roma domenica 16 ottobre alle 11.00 per discutere con giuristi, giornalisti, scrittori, attori e cittadini.

L’incontro sarà aperto da Stefano Rodotà; hanno già aderito al nostro invito, tra gli altri, Michele Ainis, Elisa Anzaldo, Anna Bonaiuto, Carlo Bernardini, Luciana Castellina, Arturo Di Corinto, Rosetta Loy, Dacia Maraini, Alessandro Pace, Antonio Pascale, Christian Raimo, David Riondino, Gaetano Savatteri, Igiaba Scego, Marino Sinibaldi, Elena Stancanelli, Chiara Valerio.

Un caloroso ringraziamento agli occupanti del Teatro Valle, che come cittadini e come lavoratori della cultura hanno deciso di sostenere e ospitare l’iniziativa. I nostri più cordiali saluti. Editori Laterza, minimum fax e GEMS

APPELLO DEGLI EDITORI IN DIFESA DELLA LIBERA INFORMAZIONE
A FRANCOFORTE LA SOLIDARIETÀ DEGLI EDITORI STRANIERI
A ROMA APPUNTAMENTO AL TEATRO VALLE DOMENICA 16 OTTOBRE

Larghissima adesione internazionale all’appello in difesa della libera informazione lanciato dagli editori Marco Cassini e Daniele di Gennaro (minimum fax), Giuseppe e Alessandro Laterza (Editori Laterza), Stefano Mauri e Luigi Spagnol (Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol). Qui di seguito alcuni fra i firmatari:

Youngsuk Chi, International Publishers Association; Ginevra e Reed Elsevier, Londra; Anand Bhushan The Federation of Indian Publishers, New Delhi; Moon Seung Hyun Koran Publishers Association, Seoul; Thomas H. Allen Association of American Publishers, New York; Nick Perren, Profile Books & Laurence King, Londra; Ibrahim Spahic Uik, Sarajevo; Ana Maria Cabanellas Editorial Heliasta, Buenos Aires; Nantapor Wogngchestha The Publishers & Booksellers Association of Thailand, Bangkok; Ahmed Bedeir, Dar El Shorouk, Cairo; Henrique Mota Principa Editora e Livraria Ferin, Parede Portogallo; Geert Noorman Uitgeversverbond, Amsterdam; Olivier Bétourné, Editions du Seuil Parigi; Michael Kolman Elsevier, Amsterdam; Dejan Papic, Laguna, Belgrado; Gaston Bellemarie, Association Nationale des Editeurs de Livres, Montreal; Shakti Malik ,Abhinav Publications, New Delhi; Asoke K. ghosh Phi Learning New Delhi; Hugo Setzer Manual Moderno Città del Messico; Kristina Ahlinder Swedish Publishers Federation, Stoccolma; Miha Kovac Mladinska, kniga, Lubiana; Werner Stocker, Dike Verlag, Zurigo; Eva Bonnier, Albert Bonniers Forlag; Stoccolma; Manfred Antoni, Ernst Klett, Stoccarda; K. Emrah Ozpirincci, Yaybir, Istanbul; Bojan Svigeij, Mladinska kniiga Lubiana; C.P.Victorico Albores, Santiago, Camara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana, Città del Messico; Richard Charkin, Bloomsbury, Londra; Bjorn Smith-Simonsen, Pax Forlag, Oslo.

La comunità degli editori ha risposto con una sola voce alla irricevibile proposta di legge del governo italiano volta a bloccare la libera circolazione delle idee e della conoscenza.
Le case editrici italiane hanno detto -pressoché all’unisono- un no indignato al tentativo subdolo di restringere il diritto di informazione dei cittadini coprendolo con l’equivoco velo di tutela della privacy.
Il rinvio dell’esame del disegno di legge è un buon risultato anche se provvisorio . E’ dunque importante che l’opinione pubblica non sia inerte nella consapevolezza che una contrazione della libertà di informazione sarebbe il primo passo di una deriva illiberale.
Ecco perché ci siamo dati appuntamento al Teatro Valle di Roma domenica 16 ottobre alle 11.00 per discutere con giuristi, giornalisti, scrittori, attori e cittadini

L’incontro sarà aperto da Stefano Rodotà; hanno già aderito al nostro invito, tra gli altri, Michele Ainis, Elisa Anzaldo, Anna Bonaiuto, Carlo Bernardini, Luciana Castellina, Arturo Di Corinto, Rosetta Loy, Dacia Maraini, Alessandro Pace, Antonio Pascale, Christian Raimo, David Riondino, Gaetano Savatteri, Igiaba Scego, Marino Sinibaldi, Elena Stancanelli, Chiara Valerio.

Un caloroso ringraziamento agli occupanti del teatro Valle che come cittadini e come lavoratori della cultura hanno deciso di sostenere e ospitare l’iniziativa.

L’elenco completo delle adesioni sarà consultabile dal 14 ottobre sui siti di

MINIMUM FAX
LATERZA
GEMS

Giuseppe Allegri, Piero Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Bronzini, Arturo Di Corinto, Luigi Ferrajoli, Andrea Fumagalli, Luciano Gallino, Stefano Giubboni, Sandro Gobetti, Fausta Guarriello, Maria Rosaria Marella, Cristina Morini, Giovanni Orlandini, Mauro Palma, Stefano Rodotà, Chiara Saraceno, Rachele Serino, Luca Santini, Guido Viale

REDDITO DI BASE, UN DIRITTO FONDAMENTALE
Fonte: *** – il manifesto
Domenica 09 Ottobre 2011

Dear Madam Dear Sir
We wanted to draw your attention to an online petition we started asking for an open and free Internet in Europe, that can be found at www.euopeninternet.eu and that has been able to collect over 4000 signatures in 4 days and with no budget at all to make a buzz (unless good will counts).
If you consider this petition worthy of your support, we would appreciate receiving your signature(s) and if you could pass it on! This petition has become even more important since the European Parliament last night decided to focus negotiations on the EU telecoms package on amendment 138, leaving many flawed provisions in the package, but hinting they would address the issue of “net neutrality” at a later stage.
Kind regards

To co-sign this letter as an NGO or company, send an email to signature@laquadrature.net

Net neutrality has been an indispensable catalyst of competition, innovation, and fundamental freedoms in the digital environment. A neutral Internet ensures that users face no conditions limiting access to applications and services. Likewise, it rules out any discrimination against the source, destination or actual content of the information transmitted over the network.

Thanks to this principle, our society collectively built the Internet as we know it today. Except in some authoritarian regimes, everyone around the globe has access to the same Internet, and even the smallest entrepreneurs are on equal footing with the leading global enterprises. Moreover, Net neutrality stimulates the virtuous circle of a development model based on the growth of a common communication network that enables new uses and tools, as opposed to one relying on investments in filtering and controlling. Only under such conditions is Internet continuously improving our societies, enhancing freedom — including the freedom of expression and communication — and allowing for more efficient and creative markets.

However, Net neutrality is now under the threat of telecom operators and content industries that see business opportunities in discriminating, filtering or prioritizing information flowing through the network. All around Europe, this kind of discriminatory practices, detrimental to both consumers and innovation, is emerging. No court or regulator seems to have adequate tools to counter these behaviors and preserve the general interest. Some provisions introduced in the Telecoms Package could even encourage such practices.

We who have signed this open letter urge the European Parliament to protect the freedom to receive and distribute content, and to use services and applications without interference from private actors. We call on the Members of the Parliament to take decisive action during the ongoing negotiation of the Telecoms Package in order to guarantee a free, open and innovative Internet, and to safeguard the fundamental freedoms of European citizens.

Source: Center for democracy and technology

Common Values and Shared Duties on the Internet

Over the past two decades, the Internet has transformed economic, political and cultural landscapes across the entire globe. Out of the simple exchange of data packets, we have collectively built a vast and complex information ecosystem, linked together into many thousands of overlapping social networks, which have enriched and ennobled our lives. Though we speak different languages and have different values, together we have built a place – myriad places — where we can all meet and communicate with one another.

We do not often enough stand back and marvel at the new global online society that we are building, nor do we frequently enough reflect upon our place, as individuals, in this new social order. It is time to do so. The Internet has become so pervasive in all of our lives that we have begun to take it for granted, like the air we breathe or the water we drink. But we cannot afford to do that anymore. The Online Commonwealth – open, innovative, and free – is under attack from many quarters: Destructive and often virulent code threatens our shared infrastructure, while some cyber-security measures proposed in response may invade our privacy and accord unprecedented control to regulators; online predators and adult content raise concerns for parents seeking to protect their children, but restrictions proposed in reaction to these problems may chill lawful adult speech; rigid local regulations deter innovation, creating conflicting and confusing jurisdictional claims regarding applicable rules while failing to promote online order; increasingly sophisticated tools for filtering and monitoring online activities are implemented by public authorities and private actors; overly restrictive intellectual property laws may dampen our collective creativity; closed, gated systems increasingly place innovation behind locked barriers.

There are plenty of anecdotes about harmful online activities, usually accompanied by calls for new restrictions and new legislation. Press reports about online activities are replete with descriptions of the unlawful, the unreasonable, and the unpleasant. Fewer stories catalogue, and less attention is paid to, the manner in which the Net acts as catalyst for economic growth, education, and human rights, how it educates the young, connects the elderly to friends and family, fosters new economic ventures and global trade, knits together the world’s scientific community, and entertains and enlightens us all. It is time for those of us who care about the continued development of the Online Commonwealth to articulate the shared values that have enabled it to flourish, to celebrate its continued vitality, and to come, where necessary, to its defense, while also working to ameliorate harms arising from it.

We believe in the free and open flow of ideas and information embodied in the bits we send across the Internet. The Internet is a society of mind. Individuals – not intermediaries, whether governmental or private, acting without their authorization – have the right to decide with whom they wish to communicate. We oppose mechanisms – whether embodied in law, technology, or both – that unreasonably or without authorization interfere with the voluntary allocation of our own attention. We support mechanisms that enable individuals to decide what online groups to join and with whom they want to interact. We believe that the Online Commonwealth grows more valuable every day because it is open to all. No one should need permission to use the global language, to add ideas and information to our shared stores of knowledge, or to try out a new protocol or application, and we oppose mechanisms which place unreasonable constraints or controls on our freedom to continue to do so.

We believe in the promise of the Internet: that ideas and information can be shared by all and with all. We worry that overly aggressive assertions of intellectual property rights or other forms of content control can create an “anti-commons,” preventing us from exercising our rights to learn from and to speak freely to one another.

We believe that the software code through which we communicate online can radically extend our powers, free us from routine matters, and help us direct our attention to the most useful information and our most valuable relationships. But we recognize that code can also invade our privacy and destroy the very devices and networks through which we interact. Those who propagate destructive or invasive software code are the enemies of the Online Commonwealth, and we should use all appropriate tools at our disposal, including law, to deter and punish them. We share a duty to learn how to defend our own systems from attack, and to take available steps to avoid becoming victims or propagators of harm.

We believe that the people of the Internet are, collectively, the killer app. We confront our screens as individuals – but we can act through those screens with others, and it is by engaging our minds with those of others that we create new, diverse, interdependent roles, thereby expanding, continuously, the potential exchanges between related or complimentary roles that create wealth and wisdom. Our new Online Commonwealth is not founded on physical resources, geographic territory, financial capital, or even human labor. It emerges from attention and effort expended in increasingly diverse roles that channel our efforts into pursuit of goals defined by the many different groups with which we collaborate every day. These groups make the world wealthier and wiser every day precisely because they have many different, diverse, and decentralized goals. But all groups should share one core value – respect for and deference to other groups that refrain from imposing harm on others. The Internet enables people with very different values to coexist peacefully, online, precisely insofar as all groups respect this principle, and we oppose any claim by any group – public or private – that seeks to impose its own will on those whose welfare it doesn’t seek to serve and who have not consented to its claim to govern.

The Online Commonwealth is continuously under threat – both from those who would stifle its creativity and those who abuse its liberties. Who will defend it? We all must do so. By collaborating to cut off havens for harm. By participating in online reputation and rating systems by means of which we guide each other’s use of the Internet. By resisting regulation that uses the potential for such harm to justify equally harmful constraints. By creating new online institutions that help us take collective action to pursue our shared visions of the good. And by celebrating the many ways in which the Internet has unleased the creative powers of millions of people.

We are releasing this call on One Web Day, September 22, to reaffirm our shared commitment to the values that have enabled the Internet to prosper. We are all citizens of countries and states, members of families, employees of companies, participants in churches and clubs. But we are also, importantly, members of the shared, global Online Commonwealth, and we re-affirm our shared commitment to defend and celebrate this marvelous collective creation.

Petizione rivolta al Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, L’ Europa Unita, La Lega Araba e gli Stati Uniti d’America:
Abbiamo bisogno che tu agisca subito per essere sicuri che il cessate il fuoco nella striscia di Gaza avvenga, per la protezione dei civili di entrambe le parti e per controllare la crescente crisi umanitaria. Solo con una decisiva e forte azione internazionale potrà rendere possibile la fine di questo bagno di sangue, assicurare la riapertura dei confini di Gaza e un vero progresso verso una solida Pace nel 2009.

http://www.avaaz.org/it/gaza_time_for_peace/