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Of course I am!<br>
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It was a cheeky slight intended for those who advocated the almost
absolute supremacy of Northern governance regimes, including
"representative" ICANN over any other arrangements! <br>
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While these debates are learning processes, and things move on and
change, for me the tenor of these issues are merely an indication of
a proverbial North/South divide in discourse on these matters. So
called claims to universalism that do violence to difference, in
other words. While many may not feel empathy, my hat tips to
Parminder et al for chugging along despite these pressures.<br>
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riaz<br>
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On 2011/08/20 11:21 AM, McTim wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Riaz K
Tayob <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>></span>
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What wonderful convergence! Of course the mainstream media
reporting on countries in the South doing this has/had an edge
of "look at how primitive these people are" while the case of
the UK considering such actions are more "reasonable",
"measured" and "considered".<br>
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And if we take the recent years preponderant arguments of this
forum of democratizing institutions (like control over
Critical Internet Resources) so that some form of control can
be exercised, why not simply expand ICANN's control so its
mandate can cover these kinds of "censorship" issues too? In
for a penny in for pound, eh?</blockquote>
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<div>I hope you are joking!!</div>
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Cheers,<br>
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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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