[governance] 'search neutrality' to go with net neutrality

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> And there is a lot of space between self-regualtion and government
> regulation.

Yes, and I would say that this space might or should vary with the 
issues at hand.

My feeling is that "top down regulatory regimes" are nowadays in most 
areas more of a fiction than a reality. Such regulatory options may be 
part of the black and white rhetorics we would like to leave behind.

jeanette
> 
> This is where I look for some multistakeholder solution to the
> regulatory conundrum.  This includes a balance between
> self-regualtion and top down regulatory regimes.
> 
> a.
> 
> On 7 Jan 2010, at 10:06, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I wonder how many people on this list would wish that governments
>>> got themselves organised, and [attempted to] sort out all the
>>> perceived ills on the Internet, on the grounds that they believe
>>> the current mechanisms were failing their collective citizens?
>> Here is quote from Larry Lessig that I recently used:
>> 
>> "In a world drowning in spam, computer viruses, identity theft,
>> copyright 'piracy', and the sexual exploitation of children, the
>> resolve against regulation has weakened. We all love the Net. But
>> if some government could really deliver on the promise to erase all
>> the bads of this space, most of us would gladly sign up."
>> 
>> I think what has changed over the last decade is that the belief in
>> the Internet's capacity for for self-regulation has lost its
>> original traction. But public regulation hasn't become the default
>> solution. The debate is about where, when and how governments
>> should play a role. In this respect, the Internet has become more
>> similar to other policy fields, hasn't it? jeanette
>>> And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is most of the IG debate in a
>>> nutshell.
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