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   - Pat Rabbitte's and Lorraine Higgins' bills, since withdrawn
   - The EU Terrorism Content Directive...
   - The new Copyright Directive...
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+  -
 
 * CONSDONE Introduction
 
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    punishing an intermediary would stop people being nasty to each
    other.
 
-   Any new regulations around 
+   Any new regulations around controlling abusive or harmful
+   behaviours online must start with changing user's behaviours. If
+   there is no attempt to change behaviour, then abusive people will
+   simply work around the controls and continue to abuse.
 
-** CONSTODO Investigation support 
+** CONSTODO Investigation support
+
+   In response to the live-streaming of that horrific shooting dead of
+   more than 50 people in New Zealand earlier this year, that country
+   has proscribed the video recorded by that white supremacist
+   terrorist as "objectionable", making it a criminal offence to share
+   it[fn:banNotice:https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/christchurch-attacks-press-releases/#christchurch-attack-video-footage-and-document-has-been-banned-in-nz-what-this-means-for-you].
+
+   While one can understand the thinking that sharing the material
+   could only be done by people who support the atrocity, this is not
+   necessarily true. Other reasons to share the video or portions of
+   it might include
+   - to appeal for help in finding someone caught up in the masssacre
+   - Legitimate news reporting of such an event.
+   - to help investigate the shooting and its circumstances
+   - training for law enforcement or terrorism- or disaster-response
+     personnel.
+
+   However, if the law says that no form of sharing is permitted, then
+   none of the entirely legitimate purposes would be possible, and the
+   world would be that bit less safe as a result.
 ** CONSTODO Encrypted services
+
+   Some believe that if end-to-end encryption services that prevent
+   security services from accessing material were banned or
+   controlled, there would be less abusive behaviour online. This is
+   not true, nor is it a good public policy.
+
+   Encryption is just mathematics, and it knows neither whether its
+   use is for ill or good. However, when you consider the extent to
+   which encryption is being used -- every website that uses =https=
+   as part of its address encrypts the traffic between itself and its
+   users, and that is nearly every website around the world -- the
+   good uses vastly outnumber the bad uses. If people are forced to
+   use an encryption system that has been modified to make it easy for
+   security services to gain access to the messages, it means that all
+   the good, innocent uses of encryption are at risk. Recent news that
+   Russian spies managed to infiltrate the
+   FBI[fn:Oath:https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-russia-carried-out-a-stunning-breach-of-fbi-communications-system-escalating-the-spy-game-on-us-soil-090024212.html
+   (Please note that to access this story the user has to agree to
+   many hundreds of forms tracking or spend many up to an hour
+   examining those forms and disabling each one individually. It is
+   recommended that this story be access using "Incognito" or "Private
+   Browsing" mode in order to be protected against tracking).],
+   highlights how unreliable are assurances from security services
+   that they can keep secrets such as the keys to all encryption safe
+   from harm.
+
+   All it takes is one determined intruder, and all the good uses of
+   encryption are put at risk in order to safe money and effort on
+   investigating illegal activities.
+
+   I have written a number of articles on this matter providing more
+   details:
+   - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2015/03/12_the-value-of-encryption.html][The value of encryption]]
+   - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2015/03/18_how-can-encryption-be-regulated.html][How can encryption be regulated]]
+   - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/08/21_you-cant-stop-people-from-using-encryption.html][You just can't stop people from using encryption, so stop trying]]
+   - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/08/22_stop-people-from-using-encryption-postscript.html][Post-script on why you should stop trying to stop people from
+     using encryption]]
+   - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/09/04_some-questions-5-eyes-countries-what-can-they-do.html][Some questions for the "5 Eyes" countries on what they think they
+     can do]]
+
 * CONSTODO Answers to consultation questions
   The follows are some answers to the questions posed in the call for
   submissions.