A friend of mine on another list posted this which is from the Regulators in Germany, see <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">20110819-facebook-en.htm</a></span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Apparently Facebook has till September 2011 to comply.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Sala</font></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:55 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">and yet another example:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h1 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;font-family:georgia, 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua';font-size:2.3em">
"Facebook ‘like’ button declared illegal" (DE)</h1></span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110819-37073.html" target="_blank">http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110819-37073.html</a><br>
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg" target="_blank">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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But above level 1 things get complicated. There have been many attempts to regulate for example, assignment of IP address space. So far most telecom laws expressly exclude regulating IP addresses and domain names, because the authority for those reside outside their jurisdiction.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>This is the key sentence in this entire discussion IMO....over the last 3 decades or so, the "authority" in this example area of Internet Governance has evolved from a "one guy with a notebook" model to a global, multi-stakeholder led, BUTOC (Bottom Up, Transparent Open, Consensus) based model. This allows for "true democracy" or participatory democracy by which governments are somewhat "dis-intermediated" so that while governments do participate in this policy development area, representation of individual Internet users and other entities is actively encouraged. I, for one, greatly prefer my democracy to be participatory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is just one example of how the Internet "is different".</div></div>-- <br><font color="#888888">Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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