Broadcasting House

Fighting 'Fake News' & 'Sham Democracy' Through The Decentralisation of 'Truth' Broadcasting House's mission is to defend Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the age of the Internet & it's associated broadcast, narrowcast, multicast, anycast & unicast technologies Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion & expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference & to seek, receive & impart information & ideas through any media regardless of frontiers" In a landmark resolution on July 1, 2016, the United Nations declared net neutrality to be “in accordance with international human rights obligations, in particular with regard to freedom of expression, freedom of association & privacy.” Not only does this resolution attribute equality to all data that flows across the Internet, it also recognizes all Internet users’ equal access to that data From online banking to communication protocols, breaking news to social media, the spread of ideas to the protection of free speech—network neutrality is a fundamental element of respecting human rights as dependence on the digital world grows. It must be legitimately implemented, or we risk violating the basic tenets of freedom of expression & human rights Broadcasting House believes these fundamental rights & liberties are gradually being eroded as so-called 'Fake News' & global security issues are increasingly employed as reasons to restrict our access to information & override our freedom to decide on what is right & what is wrong for ourselves Broadcasting House recognises this is difficult philosophical territory but does not believe censorship to be a progressive long-term solution & is working with partners the World over to establish a bottom-up, decentralised, self-regulating framework to oppose those who advocate top-down, centralised, capital & big government-dominated regulatory control