Dear Andrea - my thank you was intended literally. I was really grateful for the reminder :-)<div>Deirdre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 December 2011 11:46, Andrea Glorioso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea@digitalpolicy.it">andrea@digitalpolicy.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Deirdre, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Andrea,<div>Thank you for a lesson in being more careful about what I write, and particularly about how I choose quotations.</div><div>In fact although both replies were triggered by the article that Imran shared with us, neither was intended as a direct comment on either the European Commission or Commissioner Kroes. This time my attention was attracted by the words<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> "the power of the Internet, and social networking in particular, in building freedom and democracy" -</span><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> I should have isolated them from their paragraph.</font></span></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">However I am very glad that you replied, because in your reply the people themselves get the attention they deserve which is more often concentrated on the technology.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Best wishes</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Deirdre</span></font></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Please be assured that it is not my intention to give lessons to anyone. I am not a native English speaker and therefore I may not always manage to choose the correct words and tone to ensure that what is meant to be a factual response does not become an arrogant one. (But I am also told by my family that I tend to be very "professor-like" when I speak to them in my own native tongue :). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Jokes aside, please do take everything I say here as a sincere request for constructive discussions. We are not, nor do we consider ourselves to be, holders of the one and only truth, either in this field or in others (we may have strong opinions, but that's a different matter I guess). We need all the good ideas that can come up from all stakeholders, whether they are channeled through the newly-nominated advisor of Neelie Kroes or via other means.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrea</div></div>
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