*Mobilisation for digital rights** * JOE MCNAMEE 13 June 2016 /Post-ACTA, decision-making has been adapted to avoid decision-moments. Of course, individual grassroots campaigns are still hugely valuable. But we need long-term advocacy.// / In a digital society, digital rights are simply our rights. They are our right to express ourselves freely, our right to a private life, our right to our possessions. But what if digital society fails to realise that our traditional rights and freedoms cannot always be defended by traditional thinking or traditional legal instruments? What if the entire framework for the regulation of the digital aspects of our societies is being built in a vacuum where politically expedient and populist policies are being put in place before society realises what is happening? Then our digital society will not have rights, because our rights nowadays have both an offline and an online dimension. Our society's hard-fought democratic rights will have been repealed without discussion. This is the challenge of digital rights advocacy in 2016. […] Continua qui: https://www.opendemocracy.net/joe-mcnamee/mobilisation-for-digital-rights