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</div></div>I'm just going to respond briefly to this discrete point since my name was mentioned. If you take another look at my NETmundial submission, or indeed at anything else that I have written, I have never specified that there must be equality at the level of formal political power, and actually have said the opposite. My support has always been for multi-stakeholder processes that develop soft law, which at their intersection with national and international legal systems would have to be implemented through by parliaments, courts, treaties, etc.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyway, it is clear that there is a greater than ever divergence between those of us who support the development of multi-stakeholder global Internet governance and those who will continue to place their faith in intergovernmentalism, and we will both claim that it is in support of democracy. I don't have a problem with the division or the debate, but can we resist taking such a badgering tone? I really doubt that that form of discourse is going to convince anyone to switch their views.<div class="">
<div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik </div></div></div></div>