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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/06/13 04:39, McTim wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">What I find worrying is that those of us
who have always been concerned about giving gov'ts too much
power in IG arenas are now pilloried for blocking attempts at
giving gov't too much power when it is in fact a gov't that is
responsible for this fiasco (not the T&A folks, nor biz
folks who are also pilloried).
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Promoting the participation of governments in *global*
multi-stakeholder Internet governance arenas is all about *limiting*
the ability to abuse their power domestically or in narrower fora.
So there is no inconsistency here. Imagine if we didn't have the
UDHR as a yardstick against which to measure the NSA's behaviour,
but only the US Constitution. Hence the need to go global.<br>
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