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<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>
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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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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jeremy Malcolm <<a 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 href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Ian Peter <<a 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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</SPAN></FONT><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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and Twitter.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><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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