Tonga Attended the Second World Internet Conference Wuzhen, China Featured
President Xi and World Leaders who Attened the Conference
21st December 2015. The Government of the People’s Republic of China hosted the Second World Internet Conference which was officially opened by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in an opening ceremony in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, on December 16th 2015.
Currently there about 3 billion Internet users of which nearly 700 million are from China. Over 2000 delegates from 120 countries attended the. Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni is among some of the world leaders that include President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Russia that were invited to attend this three days Summit in the historical city of Wuzhen, China.
This summit hopes to enable a platform to develop a globally shared view of how the Internet is reshaping our economic, social, cultural and human environments.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for Internet access to be expanded worldwide and for more international cooperation to manage content and ensure legality online.
"Cyberspace is not a domain beyond the rule of law. While respecting Internet users' rights of exchanging ideas and expressing their minds, efforts should be made to build a sound cyberspace order under the law so as to protect the legitimate rights and interests of all Internet users," the president said.
"Greater efforts should be made to strengthen ethical standards and promote civilized behavior in cyberspace," he added.
Hon Sovaleni agreed with President Xi that cyberspace should not become a battlefield for countries to wrestle with one another and it should not become a hotbed of crime. The international community need to work together to prevent and oppose the use of cyberspace for criminal activities.
Hon Sovaleni added that “It is important to ensure that challenges that we face in small island developing states such as Tonga are raised. Solutions discussed should take into account these challenges. Three key issues that will be discussed in the Conference are innovation, governance and cyber security”.
His Excellency Tau’aika ‘Uta’atu welcomed the high level participation from Tonga and stated that this will strengthened our relationship with China and those countries that participated.
Tonga’s delegation include Hon. Sovaleni, His Excellency Rt Hon. Tau’aika ‘Uta’atu, Tonga’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, and Mr Andrew Toimoana, Director of Information, MEIDECC.
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Fakamalo atu Mokofisi, 'oku toe maama ange 'a e 'uhinga 'o e fakataha ni 'i ho'o huluhulu mai. Pea kapau te tau sio fakalelei, ko e pou'i pe eni ia 'o e ngaue faka tikitato, 'alu a Sovaleni 'o tikitato'i 'etau mo'ui he technology, ka e tikitato'i leva 'e 'Akilisi ia kitautolu 'i he sosaieti. 'Oku ou nofo au 'o fifili hono 'omai kinautolu 'i ha kuonga pehe ni.
Kuo mo'oni pe lau 'a e himi, ketau lotu fai ma'u pe 'oua na'a vaivai. -
IS CHINA KIDDING THE WORLD? I HOPE TONGA IS NOT FALLING FOR THAT COMMUNISM CHARADE...
A government regime based on restricting free speech wants to teach us how censorship is done and call for "lnternational cooperation to manage content and ensure online legality?"
Deputy PM Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni and Company attended the Second World Internet Conference in China to learn a few censorship tricks as Tonga's "Internet Moral Czar."
Laws in the books are already addressing the illegality of pornography, human sex trafficking, child pornography and child labor abuses. That's where Police work and cyber investigation of illegal networks are needed. We do not need media censorship dressed up as "Internet Moral Poiice" to restrict free speech. I should have the freedom to choose what Internet program I invite to my home for my children and family.
My responsibility as a parent is to police my own household and electronics devices to restrict immoral shows coming to my children and my family. Every TV, computers, and smart-phones have a device called "Parental Control." I should shutout and restrict shows that responsible parents should not allow their kids to watch on TV, accessed by computers, and smart-phones.
Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni does not have the moral standards to decide by fiat to be my children's "Internet Moral Czar." He should look after the interests of his own children as I do with my children. Government censorship cannot censor free speech and claim they're doing it to protect my children.
We should keep government out of our lives as much as possible. They cannot be snooping around as Peeping Toms in our neighborhoods to see who is watching and receiving what program.
That is what the Chinese Government is doing, and we do not need it in a free democratic society. China is a one-party Communist society: Government spies on its citizens, and incarcerate them with the minimum restrictions of the law.