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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">An utterly
disingenuous take on a shallow article </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Also who is
actually paying the various people in the multistakeholder community? </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">You too are a
stakeholder and doubtless the money you spend on airfare to various igov
events doesn't materialize from thin air </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">So what is the
objection here? </p>
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28 September 2014 12:05:02 pm parminder <parminder@itforchange.net>
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<font face="Verdana"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/fast-lane-slow-lane--no-l_b_5865996.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/fast-lane-slow-lane--no-l_b_5865996.html</a><br>
<br>
This article tell you what non regulation of the Internet is
about, and it still does not even talk about the free run that
global Internet monopolies seeks.<br>
<br>
No, it is not about "Internet freedom" - that is a clever cover
up, but many of us are all just too eager to believe.<br>
<br>
(Freedom of expression is important but of course US gov and US
corporations have no real interest in it.)<br>
<br>
</font>In 1997, the United Nations adopted the Model Law on
Electronic Commerce that had been developed by the UN Commission on
International Trade Law. In fact the India's IT Act 2000, which is
still the omnibus law in India governing electronic transactions,
makes reference to this Model Law in its preamble.<br>
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Now, why, when the UN can adopt a Model law of e-commerce, can we
not discuss and possibly adopt a Model Law on IP based
telecommunication and net neutrality. Can anyone answer this simple
and obvious question for me? Please, I am serious. <br>
<br>
But no, that will be blasphemy. Those are all attempts by
governments to take over the Internet, watch out! Why? Because US
tell us so. And so many of us are happy to take our cues from the
US, and its political and corporate allies. (Has it anything to do
with from where the money flows?).<br>
<br>
We badly need a global discussions on and adoption of a model law on
IP based telecommunications, and on net neutrality. <br>
<br>
But any such possibility will be resisted tooth and nail, and a lot
of resources thrown into it. The musical for the next meeting in
Busan in Korea has already started. ( <font face="Verdana"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/09/the-state-departments-plan-to-spark-a-global-sopa-style-uprising-around-internet-governance/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/09/the-state-departments-plan-to-spark-a-global-sopa-style-uprising-around-internet-governance/</a>
). Wait and see how the "multistakeholder community" that mystical
organism, dances to one tune, that which emanates from the US. I
feel pity for all the risks that Snowden took and the sacrifices
he made.<br>
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parminder <br>
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