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Champions of Internet Freedom Ignore Online Ethics at Their Own Peril

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 7 pp.

ISBN 978-3-86498-009-1

"Advocates of Internet freedom need to develop more responses to cybercrime and online ethics to make sure that real concerns are not exploited by repressive governments to impose Internet controls and other measures, which violate the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of information. An improved multi-stakeholder system of Internet governance, increased transnational cooperation and increased investment in Internet safety technology is needed to combat rising levels of cybercrime. Principles of self-regulation can and should be increasingly extended to online media and online communication to fight ethical lapses in Internet content. While the nature of the Internet can compound some of the ethical problems encountered it simultaneously displays features which can help to make self-regulation work." (Page 1)