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These companies seem to to be taking a remarkably relaxed attitude
towards a closed-door process in which governments could rewrite the
rules for information flows on the global Internet. It also marks a
stark contrast with their attitude towards another process that
could have been described in almost identical terms—the 2012 World
Conference of International Telecommunication (WCIT) of the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU).<br>
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The answer, we fear, is that lobbyists and political power brokers
feel comfortable that they have the TISA negotiations under their
control. As IBM puts it a communication found in the document stash
that <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/new-foia-released-emails-reveal-cozy-relations-between-us-trade-officials-and">EFF
released this week</a>, “the US and the EU ... are in the best
position to define the rules of the road necessary to protect the
world's vital governmental, environmental and societal interests”.<br>
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Nor do these states seem as interested in loosening their control
over these processes as other nations. Amongst the countries <i>excluded</i>
from TISA, Brazil crafted its <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/marco-civil-devil-detail">Marco
Civil da Internet</a> in an open, multi-stakeholder process,
Similarly the Philippines crowdsourced the drafting of a Magna Carta
for the Internet that included <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/brief-analysis-magna-carta-philippine-internet-freedom">some
powerful principles</a>.<br>
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These are the kinds of processes, and the kinds of documents
resulting from them, that at least nod to the openness we need for a
legitimate debate about the future of the Internet. It's notable
that it is the world's developing countries, rather than the U.S.
and EU trade ministries who are at the forefront of innovating such
processes. <br>
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