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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Question. Is there any space for [personal
and informed] choice in this view?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb@bertola.eu] <br>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:02 PM<br>
To: governance@lists.cpsr.org; Milton Mueller<br>
Subject: Re: [governance] Where are we going?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Milton Mueller ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>> You are thus advocating<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>> self-censorship and deference to authority, in the hopes that that
will<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>> buy ICANN some time. The attitude is, "don't do anything that
will<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>> provoke people."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>There is a basic point that I think needs to be done here, even if it <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>brings us much farther than Internet governance itself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>What you call "self-censorship and deference to authority"
(thus <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>implying that governments speak for the sake of authority rather than
to <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>convey an actual feeling of their citizens, something that would at <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>least deserve case by case evaluation) could be considered by others <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>basic respect for different opinions, especially when the issues touch <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>into the personal sphere of ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>For example, I am an atheist and in my country blasphemy is not <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>forbidden by law, but still I don't go around saying blasphemies about <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>the gods of whatever religion, even if I'm technically free to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>So, I consider abortion a right of every woman, but I would not see why
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>you would want to make headlines by creating a .abortion TLD, thus <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>possibly offending and provoking those cultures and individuals which <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>have not matured that right yet. Note that this does not prevent <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>abortion itself, where legal, or its discussion in any way! It's just <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>overloading the domain name system with content-related value battles <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>that do not pertain to it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>I understand that the "respect" or "decency"
argument is often used as <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>an excuse to promote actual censorship. However, I think that in
certain <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>cases it is a valid argument and will become more valid as the world <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>gets further integrated and needs more inclusion and reciprocal <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>understanding; there needs to be a specific evaluation and balancing of
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>different views and sensitivities. You need a tolerant attitude towards
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>other people's taboos, or even just different views of the world; and
an <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>approach that uses dialogue to let people freely grow out of them, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>rather than aggressive vindication of your supposed freedom to
disregard <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu
<--------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>--------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/
<--------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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