Leaked Soros Document Calls For Regulating Internet To Favor ‘Open Society’ Supporters

 

Perhaps this coincides with...

 

The US 'could give control of the internet's addressing system to the United Nations' on September 30 - after pledging it never would

 

Maybe just a coincidence?  Probably. What Soros is calling for doesn't really have too much to do with address naming, rather the apparent ISP taking action in suppression of speech. Still interesting timing.

 

From the first article:

 

“Our freedom of expression work furthers the free exchange of information and ideas via the media and internet, and proposes to begin to address the free expression and association rights of NGOs. The internet has been a key tool for promoting freedom of expression and open societies — as in the Arab Spring — and is a potential safeguard against monopoly control of information in such places as China and Central Asia,” page 19 of the document notes.

 

“But it is also presenting underaddressed challenges, including lack of regulation of private operators that are able to decide, without due process procedures, what information is taken off the Internet and what may remain. A ‘race to the bottom’ results from the agendas of undemocratic governments that seek to impose their hostility to free speech on the general online environment. We seek to ensure that, from among the norms emerging in different parts of the world, those most supportive of open society gain sway.”

 

They want a safeguard against monopoly control, but then immediately advocate about giving monopoly control to those who favor "open society", whatever the hell that means. I guarantee the phrase "open society" holds a much different meaning that many of the board members here. I double guarantee Soros' "open society" is far from open.

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