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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 20 January 2013 03:00 PM,
Adam Peake wrote:<br>
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<div style="line-height:19.190340042114258px">I don't recall
support the notion of US Exceptionalism from anyone on this
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No one will profess that term for oneself. However, clearly it is US
Exceptionalism being practised when:<br>
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1. anyone agrees or shows strong sympathy with the view that US has
(not just 'had') a 'historic role' in the evolution of the Internet
(and perhaps in protection of its 'basic principles', whatever it
may mean) and <i>therefore</i> some degree of continued
pre-eminence of the US government in some key IG arrangements,
including of the CIRs, is fine/ acceptable...<br>
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2. anyone is fine with US laws/ courts/ executive/ statutory
authorities (FCC, FTC etc) determine much of how the Internet's
architecture develops, whether through US law/ jurisdiction’s
application on the ICANN, or on most of the monopoly global Internet
mega-corporates.... <br>
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In fact, if the IGC can agree that such US exceptionalism is <i>wrong
and unacceptable</i>, and sincerely begins to make political
proposals to come out of it, we would have reconciled a lot of
political differences among the members of IGC, and also made a
great contribution to the area of global governance of the Internet.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Guru
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<div>[The Panglossian world of US
Exceptionalism.... of course these matters
are discussed and debated, but dare to do
anything about it and then those will be put
in their place, or no?]<br>
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<div> The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron
Swartz</div>
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<cite> <span style="display:inline">Jan 18,
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<div>A very good question; I personally don't
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John,<br>
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Do you mean you do not think US is exceptional / it is
wrong to believe that the US is exceptional<br>
or<br>
Do you mean that there is no belief prevalent about US
exceptionalism<br>
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Can you elaborate on this remark<br>
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thanks,<br>
Guru<br>
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