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Ian Peter wrote:
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<title>Re: [governance] Wikileaks - ISOC</title>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">>Do we want to say "we support Wikileaks"
or do we want to say "we disapprove of the (lack of) process that has
been followed in dealing with Wikileaks, and we think that a set of
principles should be >democratically developed to guide public and
private responses in future similar circumstances"? Whilst I
personally support Wikileaks, I think that the latter approach is more
within the IGC's area of >core competence, and would also
distinguish our statement better from those of free speech groups et al.<br>
<br>
Along the lines of the latter I think – we can say recent events such
as those concerning Wikileaks highlight the need for....<br>
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While arguing for the development of specific processes, we can also be
critical of the sorts of actions that have been taken in the absence of
such guidelines and the futility and ineffectiveness of un
co-ordinated approaches taking place in the absence of established
legal protocols.<br>
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I agree. parminder<br>
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<hr align="center" size="3" width="95%"><b>From: </b>Jeremy Malcolm
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:00:05 +0800<br>
<b>To: </b><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>,
Ian Peter <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [governance] Wikileaks - ISOC<br>
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On 09/12/2010, at 2:53 PM, Ian Peter wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">So far we have seen everydns, mastercard,
amazon and paypal cave in to political pressure, although there is no
legal action against wikileaks, let alone a successful one. On the
other hand, ISOC (and presumably PIR) and Facebook of all bedfellows
have stood firmly on the side of a free Internet.<br>
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
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and Twitter.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">I think an IGC statement on this issue would
be useful! <br>
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Do we want to say "we support Wikileaks" or do we want to say "we
disapprove of the (lack of) process that has been followed in dealing
with Wikileaks, and we think that a set of principles should be
democratically developed to guide public and private responses in
future similar circumstances"? Whilst I personally support Wikileaks,
I think that the latter approach is more within the IGC's area of core
competence, and would also distinguish our statement better from those
of free speech groups et al.<br>
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