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<div>I am really stunned by the turn your latest messages have taken. It would seem that you have directed a massive ad-hominem argument (attack?) on a large group of people who not only don't get paid but actually sacrifice better paid jobs and put their own
day jobs on the line - sometimes also pay out of pocket and don't get a lot of love at home - for the promotion and, when needed, defense of values of the Internet. </div>
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<div>Many - I tend to include myself in this list - have a very clear approach to the situations when their views and action coincide with those of corporations, governments, and even non-commercial organizations whose views and funding do not align in other
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<div>To your statement about supporting or not "regulation." Maybe it is useful to go back to the WGIG's list of issues and find out if among the 40 or so there is something missing that has become important today. You'll see there a variety of levels of "regulation"
and/or of governmental intervention, both happening now and desirable or denounced as undesirable. </div>
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<div>People like McTim and Suresh have expressed themselves over the years about many of these, with expertise and knowledge. Your pass at them seems totally ungrounded. Unless you actually meant someone else and meant to exclude them from your sweeping statement. </div>
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<div>Riaz, same applies, IMO.</div>
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<div>Yours,</div>
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<b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2012 06:37<br>
<b>Hasta:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [governance] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127<br>
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<div>Michael<br>
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The function of arguing against regulation and then making "piece meal" adjustments as "necessary" (which is a commodious term) is not as innocuous as it seems. From the 3 prong list earlier in this thread, there is a clear "position" (as stated) and "interest"
(the reason, purpose, etc) and this is how the "game" is played.<br>
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It is not innocuous because this frames the debate in the "free markets are better" mold. Now the global financial crisis was facilitated (if not caused) by this type of thinking - in a sector most susceptible to oversight...
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It is of course a different matter, when those who argue for "hands off" and then "hands on" (exceptionally or otherwise), if one seeks to be in two places at once. But with a battalion of corporate funded ideogogues backing this view up, I guess it passes
some sort of muster.... Perhaps people are playing the "game", but perhaps not...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012/11/28 09:31 PM, michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">McTim, it seems to me that you (and others) argue long and hard against management/regulation of the Internet except (as in this case) when you don't.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">And then having accepted the (obvious) need for some sort of management/regulation of at least certain aspects of the Internet why you (etc.) should expect
that others (the rest of the world for example) should accept your definition of what those "exceptions" should be and where they should (or rather should not) be adjudicated leaves me a bit puzzled.</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">
governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; michael gurstein<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Suresh Ramasubramanian; Ian Peter; Ginger Paque<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127" target="_blank">
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm only trying to have it one way. I feel gov'ts have far too much control over what we say and do online. I don't want an intergovernmental body setting global Internet policy.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've been singing the same song for years, what is it that you don't understand about my position?</p>
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