<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>The very same thing might apply to some individuals, academia, even, quelle horror, some civil society outfits.</div><div><br></div><div>Giving any of them multistakeholder rights strikes me as a complete waste of time, but well, they are there and they do have as many rights as the facebooks of the world do.</div><div><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 06-Jul-2014, at 21:56, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font face="Verdana"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/06/we-shouldnt-expect-facebook-to-behave-ethically?CMP=fb_gu">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/06/we-shouldnt-expect-facebook-to-behave-ethically?CMP=fb_gu</a><br>
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"</font>Besides, the idea that corporations might behave ethically
is as absurd as the proposition that cats should respect the rights
of small mammals. Cats do what cats do: kill other creatures.
Corporations do what corporations do: maximise revenues and
shareholder value and stay within the law. Facebook may be on the
extreme end of corporate sociopathy, but really it's just the
exception that proves the rule."<br>
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Well, if I had said these sentences, there would have been an
immediate multistakeholder (MS) condemnation, for not conforming to
the multi-stakeholder spirit!<br>
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It is these corporations that are to sought to be given special
political rights by the 'equal footing' MS brigade, to be on the
policy making table and making political decisions, for all of us.
... The US public, and its civil society organisations, are still
reeling under the impact of the US court ruling to allow unlimited
corporate contribution to campaign financing, on the basis of a
novel political construction that corporates have the right to
freedom of expression, which cannot be diluted under the first
amendment. This judgement, many in the US and abroad feel, is having
the impact of spinning US politics so much away from its democratic
foundation that soon it may be difficult to consider US as a really
working democracy. <br>
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But that 'novel political construction' of allowing corporates to
have human rights was nothing. The 'equal footing' MSists go much
much further; they want corporates to have voting rights and
decision making powers for public policy matters. The rest of world
has simply not waken up to this demon, which is making slow but
serious progress, although somewhat clandestinely, against the
values and institutions of democracy. <br>
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parminder <br>
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