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<p class="">Hi Nick,</p>
<p class="">thanks for sharing, I think that is the same page with arguments developed in the book "electronic silk road" (<a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300154597">http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300154597</a>) which highlighted WTO role and also the report from ECIPE about censorship and trade (<a href="http://www.ecipe.org/publications/protectionism-online-internet-censorship-and-international-trade-law/">http://www.ecipe.org/publications/protectionism-online-internet-censorship-and-international-trade-law/</a>).<br>

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<p class="">Best,</p>
<p class="">Rafik</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/3 Nick Ashton-Hart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>For those of you who don’t follow trade policy, I thought you might be interested in an opinion piece in CircleID that came out today. In it I make the argument that trade policy might just be the best hope of the open Internet and that it could profoundly help to narrow the digital divide.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I hope you find it of interest</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h3 style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.692em;line-height:1.3em;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">

<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/" style="outline:none;color:rgb(128,0,0)" target="_blank">Learning to Love the WTO: How Trade Policy Can Save Open Internet - and Bridge the Digital Divide</a></h3>

<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/" target="_blank">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131202_learning_to_love_the_wto_how_trade_policy_can_save_open_internet/</a></div>

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