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<font face="Verdana">Rogue power can *only* be addressed by
legitimate power. And legitimate power should stem from people's
will. Democracy consists in creating and operating institutions
that can convert people's will into *exercisable* legitimate power
to resist rogue power, however inefficient such a conversion in
practice may be (which needs continuous engagements for
evolutionary - and sometimes revolutionary - improvements). <br>
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So, the response to counter the rogue (global) power of US plus
big Internet businesses is to create legitimate power vis a vis
the global Internet. <br>
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Refusing the existence of rogue power, or otherwise doing nothing
about it, just helps propagate it. Such a stance, in my view,
constitutes active politics in favour of rogue power.<br>
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Simple and basic political theory, but many in the IG space seem
to so often miss it...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday 07 June 2013 10:18 PM,
michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Great...
So how are you suggesting we oppose this and exactly who/what are we
opposing?
M
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<pre wrap="">We also know that anyone/country which can/will do its surveillance
and to the max, that's the nature of that beast..
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so we shouldn't oppose it?
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Cheers,
McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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