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Adequately chastised, you did not say that. Perhaps let me be more
precise and make my point based on deductions of what I see as the
positions expressed<br>
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... If freedom for corporations, like Google, is important in
developing countries then should the same standard not apply to CIR
and other issues in the US? If so, then why is the systemic issue of
Internet Governance not factored in (high or low) in order to inform
the overall perspective?<br>
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I am not against the Human Rights argument (actually with the crisis
these seem to be more needed now in developing countries) but the
framing of the arguments regarding countries needs to be more evenly
applied.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012/09/29 08:18 PM, Sivasubramanian
M wrote:<br>
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<p>On Sep 29, 2012 6:28 PM, "Riaz K Tayob" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>>
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> The issue below can also be framed with less simplicity...
there is an intersection of self-interest and public interest...
by seeing it only one way, we may miss important aspects of the
case, including the fact that human rights are essentially
litigated mainly by corporations asserting rights rather than
natural persons... after Citizens United decision in the US,
many ought to give this framing some more consideration as it
may be too simple...<br>
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> On your latter point, are you opting for the easy route of
unilateral US control? You may as well be explicit...<br>
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<p>What did I say that has this to do with 'unilateral control? I
said Corporations like Google ought to be concerned about the
long term implications of the easy approach (of saying yes to
every Government directive that interferes with Civil liberties)
The other path (of legitimate and fair challenges to unfair
directives) would be difficult, but a responsible thing to do. </p>
<p>And I also said that the Internet Corporations might need help
and support from users in such a defense :-) </p>
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> On 2012/09/28 07:59 PM, Sivasubramanian M wrote:<br>
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>> Yes, we need to see this as Google defending freedom of
expression. It would be irresponsible on the part of a large,
global Internet corporation as Google to submit to every
directive by every Government organ from everywhere, without
concern for the long term implications of such an easy approach
for the Internet.<br>
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