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

This proposal is being called the Open Society Justice Initiative, which calls for international regulation of private ‘actors’ decisions on what information is allowed on the Internet. It would favor those who support the idea of an open society.

In the document, OSJI argues that international regulation of the Internet is needed to protect freedom of expression.

“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.”

One of the “Program concepts and initiatives” listed in the document is to “Promote — by advocating for the adoption of nuanced legal norms, and litigation — an appropriate balance between privacy and free expression/transparency values in areas of particular interest to OSF and the Justice Initiative, including online public interest speech, access to ethnic data, public health statistics, corporate beneficial ownership, asset declarations of public officials, and rights of NGOs to keep information private.”

Not only does this proposal censor the voices of anybody who disagrees with liberal policy, it also encourages states to spy on their own people. Isn’t that what they do in communist countries?

Source: dailycaller.com