<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">+1 Barry.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Barry Shein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bzs@world.std.com" target="_blank">bzs@world.std.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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From: Chinmayi Arun <<a href="mailto:chinmayiarun@gmail.com">chinmayiarun@gmail.com</a>><br>
<div class="">>I just ran into this piece<br>
</div>><<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/08/boycotting-internet-governance-forum/" target="_blank">http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/08/boycotting-internet-governance-forum/</a>><br>
<div class="">>by Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altiparmak. Civil society folks who will be at<br>
>the IGF this year may find it interesting- it flags significant<br>
> internet-related concerns in Turkey.<br>
<br>
</div>Although I certainly understand the utility of making a statement vis<br>
a vis such a boycott I have a different view.<br>
<br>
Personally I'd encourage an IGF in Pyongyang and everyone attend it.<br>
<br>
To boycott such an event is, other than the hope someone might notice<br>
the press releases, nearly indistinguishable from being forbidden from<br>
attending.<br>
<br>
Silence is silence.<br>
<br>
I suppose if a boycott mounted to the point that it crippled or even<br>
cancelled the meeting that might attract some more attention to the<br>
underlying issue at least among the I* community. It hasn't gone<br>
unnoticed.<br>
<br>
But to my mind better to bring everyone together in the clear light of<br>
day and confront these issues than to hope that one's non-appearance<br>
will effect a statement.<br>
<br>
Notice, for example, some of the state pariahs who are welcomed to the<br>
United Nations and even given a podium.<br>
<br>
It's not that I have a polyanna-ish hope in dialogue so much as a<br>
pessimistic view of non-dialogue.<br>
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-Barry Shein<br>
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