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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/04/13 20:49, Milton L Mueller
wrote:<br>
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<div class="WordSection1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">By now you should be aware that the
bill was amended to remove the clause about opposing
“government control of the Internet.” This suggests to me that
you are wrong about it being bogus. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">Faced with a choice between
articulating a global public policy principle that could be
used to challenge some of the US government’s own special
powers and gutting the bill so that it only contains an
anodyne expression of support for “the multistakeholder
model,” the U.S. congress chose the latter.</span></p>
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Actually I would really welcome the articulation of a global public
policy principle that could be used to challenge some of the US
government's own special powers (as well as attempts at control of
the global Internet by other governments). But no legislation of
the United States government is capable of legitimately articulating
global public policy principles. For that, we will need to work
through (I hope) the IGF.<br>
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As it stands I am pleased enough that we now have a tacit admission
that government control over the Internet is presently exercised by
the United States, and with that admission on the table we can move
forward. I am however worried by the language "preserve" with
reference to the multistakeholder model, since that implies that the
present arrangements are adequate, when they are not.<br>
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