It sounds like Sesame street. Sleep well, Uncle Sam takes care.<br><br>How about Amazon, Apple, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and the likes of ACTA, SOPA, etc. ? Open and multi-stakeholder, is it ?<br><br>The White House dialectic is skirting major stakes.<br>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> " </font></span>Central to the Internet’s value as a
platform for innovation, democracy, access to information and scientific
progress are the technical standards on which it is built and the open manner in
which it is governed. Yet, there are governments that seek to alter the
fundamental way the Internet functions. Several governments recently called for
new treaty <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/02/ensuring-open-internet" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/02/ensuring-open-internet</a></div></div>
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