[governance] The Big Brother is everywhere now - Assange

[Riaz K Tayob]

Precision should not be a substituted for platitudes. But precision is 
important.

CIR may be distinct from Google etc, but it also depends on how one sees 
the problem, a holistic view of governance issues requires this, while 
others may prefer differently.

Legitimacy is important and applies to any form of regulation (and it is 
trite to assume that there is not regulation of the net, CIR or 
wholesale tolerance of violations by current structures - not least the 
conflation in praxis of domain names with intellectual property rights).

What is of concern is the way in which property rights issues are being 
pushed as a way of regulating the net in an oblique way. Of course a 
platitudinous approach would not capture this (technocracy matters, but 
should it rule) which is why we have an ontological problem. And these 
are hard to solve.

And is anti-statism a good response?

Riaz



On 2011/12/02 02:30 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message 
> <CACAaNxia-PPQCza_3yoJSEZH43sweguK9ej_xXTCEbthXqLUUw at mail.gmail.com>, 
> at 06:42:46 on Fri, 2 Dec 2011, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> writes
>> You are conflating many things here.  I would suggest that the
>> governance of CIRs has very little to do with net freedom.  How can
>> ICANN, for example, regulate the behavior of Apple, Google or SWIFT?
>
> ...
>
>> If you want to enshrine Big Brother, there is no better way than to
>> give governments free hand to regulate the Internet.
>
> Regulate the Internet, or regulate CIRs? (eg why would governments be 
> more successful than ICANN vis-à-vis Apple etc).
>
> In a nutshell we have the problem with debate about regulation - is it 
> connectivity, content, or some combination like DNS, that you are 
> speaking about?

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