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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Those certain colleagues -
well, it is entirely possible to advise them to do something anatomically
impossible to themselves and then continue as usual.. </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">An agency's political oversight
on the other hand isn't as easy to ignore but then it often depends on
political rather than sound policy imperatives <br>
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26 October 2014 9:28:45 am Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm@eff.org> wrote:</p>
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style="margin: 0 0 0 0.75ex; border-left: 1px solid #808080; padding-left: 0.75ex;"><div>On
Oct 25, 2014, at 4:47 PM, michael gurstein <<a
href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
difference is that the politician or bureaucrat is subject to some or other
formal structure of accountability (these may or may not work all that well
but they are there and there are often and increasingly in many instances,
legal ways of enforcing them); for the email provider (or NGO) the only
accountability is to the market and for the NGO there isn’t even that which
of course is a major major
problem.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are many
ways in which NGOs make themselves accountable accountable (by internal
elections, membership meetings, publication of records) and for INGOs there
is an accountability forum that holds them to a high
standard. </div><div><br></div><div>Additionally in the Internet
governance space, we are under the microscope of certain of our peers who
have appointed themselves with that task, and who seem to go about it with
some delight, even to the detriment of our more substantive
agenda. </div><br><div><div><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- </span></div><div><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy
Malcolm</span></div><div><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senior Global Policy
Analyst</span></div><div><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Electronic Frontier
Foundation</span></div><font color="#000000"><span
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