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    1.  May I say that I am thoroughly enjoying this debate.<br>
    2.  I think Parminder won this round.  <br>
    3.  Hopefully that will goad Milton into having another round...<br>
    :-)  Important questions.<br>
    Stephanie Perrin<br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-10-09, 1:03, parminder wrote:<br>
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      <font face="Verdana">Milton<br>
        <br>
        There are two levels to this discussion, one is a simple
        argumentative-ness, and a second one which in my view address
        the key issue of  who or which actors can and should be
        considered as the primary target of global civil society
        advocacy, as being the prime threats to the kind of global
        Internet that we want to see in global public interest. And an
        associated question being, which actors are blocking rightful
        public interest governance of the global Internet. <br>
        <br>
        I will first respond in this email to your largely superficial
        if not misleading arguments</font><font face="Verdana"><font
          face="Verdana">, and address the key underlying question in my
          next email. excuse my indulgence.... parminder <br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 05 October 2014 11:53 PM,
        Milton L Mueller wrote:<br>
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                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br>
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              Throughout this email, you seamlessly move between UN
              based international law making and US law making, which
              may get forced on the world bec of the US's economic and
              technical might, as if there isnt any real substantive
              difference between the two... <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                Nope. I make it very clear when I am talking about one
                or the other. Your point was “the U.S.” was preventing
                us from talking about certain issues. My contention was
                simply that the U.S. is talking about those things
                extensively at its own domestic level, and that indeed,
                many of those dialogues originated in the U.S. and went
                transnational. No confusion as to levels.</span></p>
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      PJS: No.  I said, and I quote "We badly need a global discussions
      on and adoption of a model law on IP based telecommunications, and
      on net neutrality. But any such possibility will be resisted tooth
      and nail, and a lot of resources thrown into it." <br>
      <br>
      What I am saying is that US and its cohorts prevent global
      discussion and *adoption* of needed public policy frameworks in
      the IG space... Do you content this statement. if you do, lets
      focus our discussion on that. Or else, concede.<br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">When did I say there is no global
              discussion on net neutrality ?<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                In your original post. Glad to see you backing off here.
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      PJS: Can you please quote me, instead of insisting that I said
      something which I did not, and then saying I am backing off.....
      What I said is quoted above, I never said "there is no global
      discussion on net neutrality". It would be stupid to say that - I
      myself am a member of two global coalitions on NN. <br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">... As for the resistance to it and the
              resources thrown in for that sake I have historical
              details of how an NN debate and position forming got
              resisted on the IGC list as well in the MAG, for years,
              before it was finally taken up this year, <span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                Another factual error. See this, a NN workshop from
                2011: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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      PJS: Again, I do know there have been workshops on NN at the
      IGF.... One of them, at Baku, was actually organised by me for
      ITfC. Can you stop producing meaningless and diversionary
      'evidence'.<br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Yes, I know the European Commission as
              well as Council of Europe has been working on it, and I
              have participated especially in the latter's effort. <span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                So apparently the “US” effort to prevent discussion has
                failed there, too. </span></p>
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      PJS: Yes, US does get away with everything it wants. We all know
      that. But it has succeeding in stopping NN being taken up at any
      truly global policy making/ framing forum, and you know that. <br>
      <br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Well, yes. How much ever may I like to,
              we are just not able to come off the colonial and post
              colonial yoke. Dont we still take everything of worth from
              the west? <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                A typical Parminderism. Someone notes the irony of you
                claiming the “the U.S.” is stopping us from discussing
                an issue that is being actively discussed in large part
                because of US domestic politics, and you transmute that
                into a claim that everything of worth originates from
                the West. </span></p>
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      PJS: I repeat, US does try its best that global Internet related
      public policy issues are not discussed and taken up by globally
      democratic forums in any manner that could move towards their
      global democratic resolution. As for your assertion that many of
      these issues are beign discussed globally "becuase of US domestic
      politics", this just betrays the symptoms of the very regrettable
      diseases of seeing the US as the centre of the world that many US
      policy makers, and policy commentators suffer from. It is not
      going to be very useful, but still let me repeat - we discuss
      Internet public policy issues globally becuase they impact us and
      not becuase ofUS domestic politics...<br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Apart from US and its corporate allies
              being the chief instigators for filtering the debates at
              the IGF, <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MM:


                The chief instigators of filtering debates at the IGF
                are those who don’t want to disturb the IG status quo,
                as you know well. But that camp includes people in
                Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia as well as “the
                U.S.”</span></p>
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      PJS:Has it not been amply clear that the US political and business
      establishment leads the pack and is its epicentre..<br>
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                I’ve run up against those filters as much as you have,
                btw, only about 5 years before you. Ask yourself why I
                wasn’t asked to be on the IANA transition panel at
                either Netmundial or IGF, for example. But I am from the
                US. Why didn’t they welcome a fellow imperialist
                hegemonic white male? How do you explain this, my
                friend? </span></p>
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      PJS: You are slipping into a rhetoric which has no connection to
      anything I may have said. <br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Maybe

                there are substantive policy differences at stake that
                cannot be reduced to 1970s-vintage state-centric
                worldviews? </span></p>
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      PJS: Interesting! Ask Snowden how state-centric the world still
      is.. That is just one example. <br>
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                “the US” is the wrong label to be using to characterize
                your enemies? Your whole mentality is still locked into
                the nation-state mindset. </span></p>
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      PJS: This point will be addressed in my next email,<br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">The US rules the global Internet,
              politically and economically . Any civil society actor
              whose chief aim is a better distribution of power (that at
              least is what civil society used to be) would naturally
              make the US as its chief target.<span
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                But redistributing power to whom, and for what purpose?
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      PJS: To people, for their benefit. <br>
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                First, it is obvious that you are talking exclusively
                about a redistribution of power among nation-states</span></p>
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      PJS: Where is it obvious? However, yes nation states are one of
      the main vehicles of such redistribution, since they are still the
      primary vehicle of people's democratic representation ( the US
      constitution’s "we the people..") .  And seeking to dismantle this
      system of democratic representation without building a more
      democratic one is one of the most important contemporary
      strategies to check redistribution of power towards the people. <br>
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                – an approach that is intrinsically hostile to civil
                society. </span></p>
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      PJS: Please expand this.... I think the hostility is to the rule
      of free unregulated market which is basically rule of big
      business... It is the latter's increasing power that is hostile to
      civil society ..<br>
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                Further, I don’t think a redistribution that, say,
                strengthens the Russian or Chinese states is anything to
                get excited about</span></p>
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      PJS:To the extent that it can decrease illegitimate US's political
      and economic power (heard to the recent BRICS bank, you sure would
      say it is inherently hostile to 'civil society', right!) . To the
      extent it may empower the state vis a vis its own people, no....
      Two different battles, bot important. <br>
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                – or haven’t you kept your eyes on what is happening in
                Hong Kong? Perhaps you will follow Putin and Xi and
                blame all the HK unrest of “the U.S.”?</span></p>
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      PJS: Slipping again into unsustainable rhetoric... Since when
      market fundamentalism has become revolutions friendly... I fully
      support the HK democratic movement, and so do colleagues inside HK
      who work with us.  BTW, the only comment on the HK unrest I saw in
      IG lsits was one of Michael Gurstein showing detials of HK's
      Internet speeds etc and wondering whether it had to do with the
      protests. The whole multistakeholderist group and the Internet
      freedom did not utter a word... So, dont create accusations which
      have no basis... <br>
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                All part of our attempt to maintain global hegemony. So
                let’s suppress freedom and democracy in Hong Kong so we
                have a better distribution of power? </span></p>
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      PJS: Milton, you need to do better than this.<br>
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                don’t think strengthening the Indian or Turkish or South
                African states is such a great idea, either. All of them
                seem to be more interested in Internet control than
                anything else. </span></p>
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      Good, you were not able to bring yourself to mention India :) ..
      Anyway, nation state is a complex reality, and a general one kind
      of branding versus other may not help. Context matters. Within
      South Africa, almost all reform movements will be aimed against
      the state (happens in India and we participate in so many of
      them.).. At the global level, it is the US political and economic
      establishment which undoubtedly has the greatest concentration of
      power and this the greatest threat. In confronting this threat,
      most developing country governments can be used as allies. <br>
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                I ask you to frame your debate and discourse in terms of
                substantive policy choices and not polarized power blocs
                centered on nation-states.</span></p>
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      Well, I greatly admire the US as a nation of people. My problem is
      with its political and economic might which is overbearing and a
      threat to the world. As for substantive policy choices just go to
      the<a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="http://www.justnetcoalition.org/"> Just Net Coalition
        website</a>, and read its <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="http://www.justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration">Delhi
        Declaration</a> as well as more than 20 statements made by it in
      the last 6 months. And if you find another IG group which is
      clearer and more profuse in offering policy choices let me know.
      All I have heard most IG groups is just saying over and over
      again, in with multistakeholder-ism, down with UN... Hardly a
      portfolio of "substantive policy choices".<br>
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                Your mode of discourse is essentially a Cold War
                mentality, where our political choices are centered on
                being for or against the US.  <br>
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      In fact it is entirely post cold war, where the US has become a
      unipolar political and economic power, with no brakes or
      constraints, which is leading to an unsustainable concentration of
      power. The global Internet, born post cold war, is its prime
      example. Pity that there are so many in the global civil society
      that side with this greatest concentration of power on the global
      Internet "against civil society interests" to quote your somewhat
      flippant phrase.<br>
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      parminder <br>
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