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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 27 October 2012 06:39 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>So governments are the only legitimate stakeholders in
Internet governance? </div>
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I always have a problem with considering governments as stakeholders
( which kind of proposition is one of the principal democratic
defect in MS theory). Yes, they are inadequately representative,
some more inadequately than others, and some hardly representative
at all. But that is the measure and scale I see governments on, and
that is the democratic problem to address; how to improve, and if
necessary, complement their representativity. <br>
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On the other hand, if I begin to consider government, say my
government, as one stakeholder, whereby I as a part of some other
group would be another stakeholder, I am on a very problematic
ground. I have admitted that 'my government' (defined as the
government of the political entity which I can be considered to
primarily belong) is, even normatively, expected to have 'its own'
interests, other that of its constituents like me. And that having
such 'own interests', whatever it means, is in quite fine,
theoretically. To that extent I have regressed on, or in fact lost,
the 'representativity' problematisation stated above. <br>
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<div> I don't think you can just wave away the practical problems
with this - the democratic deficits in all intergovernmental
bodies, and the fact that there are transnational
(border-crossing) interests that governments have no democratic
mandate to take into account - so even in theory, they are not
adequate representatives of the public interest.</div>
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These are regular and well known problems with democracy, attempted
to be addressed by deepening democracy. There is a great amount of
literature and developing sets of practices within the arena of
democracy in this regard. The solution to these problems was never
seen to require bringing big business along to become equivalent
stakeholders as governments and others. This is an illegitimate
innovation of MSism in IG.<br>
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