Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-06-Speech-4-244"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Freedom of expression on the internet (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060706.35.4-244"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-06-Speech-4-2452
lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Trautmann2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti socialiste (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, in our globalised society, the Internet is a fast and user-friendly means of communicating among individuals or in a group, of buying and selling, of accessing information and of creating material. The Internet has become an open global public space in which everyone is, in principle, free to move around and to express him or herself. The World Summit on the Information Society has placed fundamental human rights at the core of the information society. The fact is, we are not all equal when it comes to freedom of expression on the Internet, and some States have begun to ban citizens, journalists and others from expressing themselves. Worse still, Reporters without Borders has made an alarming finding concerning Internet repression and reports that a very large number of Internet users are being held in prison, particularly in China. Our resolution enables us to take a strong stand against these attacks on people’s freedoms and to condemn the States that carry them out. We call on the Council and the Commission to demonstrate the same rigour in their international relations and their aid and cooperation programmes. Yet, we also want to appeal to the responsibility of businesses, particularly European ones, which, by providing technologies or services, are more or less involved in these acts and which ought to commit themselves to subscribing to a code of conduct preventing them from playing a part in censorship, in repression and in persecution. We cannot advocate freedom of trade while refusing to protect individual freedoms. The Athens Forum on Internet governance, scheduled for November, must enable the European Union to put the recommendations from this resolution into practice."@en1

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