[ripe-list] New on RIPE Labs: Approaching the IETF - A View from Civil Society

Thank you Alun.

I wonder if IWF is a “civil society” member. I welcome talking about IWF's
own processes. They should be scrutinized as the organization frequently
criticizes end-to-end encryption and blames it for issues with the
protection of children online. However,  it is their own processes and
privacy intrusive technologies and blocklists that are to be blamed because
they don’t work without jeopardizing encryption. Very frequently we see
articles coming out of IWF criticizing end to end encryption and protocols
like DoH which can be beneficial for protecting children’s rights. It was
not enough to lobby the UK to come up with an awful law that jeopardizes
the Internet, we now are talking about regulation at the Internet protocol
level. And yes I call it that, because they fiercely lobby for it and
frequently win.


They talk about an "orthodoxy" going on at the IETF... the orthodoxy of
methods among child online protection organizations that solely focuses on
protecting children by taking down CSAM and leaving it at that brought us
all here and put privacy which is a child's right in conflict with
protecting them online. I look forward to commenting on their I-D in the
future.







On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:28 AM Alun Davies <adavies at ripe.net> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> In this new article on RIPE Labs, Dan Sexton (CTO at IWF) talks about his
> experience of taking part in IETF 116 to raise discussion around civil
> society issues regarding the safety of the Internet for children:
>
>
> https://labs.ripe.net/author/dan-sexton/approaching-the-ietf-a-view-from-civil-society/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alun Davies
> RIPE Labs Editor
> RIPE NCC
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