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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:43 AM,
parminder wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 25 February 2015 08:05
AM, Barry Shein wrote:<br>
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Whatever happened to the theory that if you act as the censor then you
can be held responsible for the content (e.g., failure to perform
liability when some kid gets porn this way anyhow)?</pre>
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Yes, this is a very important point. There is obviously a big
paradox in these Internet majors both claiming no intermediary
liability and also the right to control the content on their
platforms. Logically, it can either be one or the other. <br>
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What such paradoxes of this new situation - where private players
fully own and control monopoly spaces underpinning key sectors of
social activity - point to is something much larger. Something
which public interest groups have not given adequate attention -
as evident from some bland responses to the earlier thread on
'monetising socialisation' referring to a very problematic - ad
hoc , not transparent and non (publicly) accountable - practice of
Facebook. This present issue about Google's sudden decision is of
a similar kind (although, I I must admit, perhaps both the
monopoly element and lock-in element is relatively lesser in case
of google's 'blogger platform' that its search platform and
Facebook's social networking platforms). <br>
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What we need is a much more serious discussion on how to meet
public interest requirements in these new conditions of an
Internet mediated society, where its key social activity spaces
are digitally mediated by monopoly platforms owned by corporate
giants, who act as per their will. ( I am surprised that a few
people here do not consider this as one of the most important IG
issues, but well to each one's own.) . Putting the proverbial
ostrich's head in the sand, which has been the mainstream civil
society response, or to hope that talks with MNCs or civil society
ratings will make the problem go away, is obviously not fine. But
we seem to be doing little else, as the techno-social architecture
of a new social system seem to be getting concretised around us,
and soon it may be too late.<br>
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At a very high level, one can say that such key monopoly social
platforms should<br>
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(1) either be directly owned by the public (which is not what most
of us want in most of the cases, although in some areas, like
shown by the movement for community owned broadband network, such
public/ community ownership needs to be explored and this option
cannot just be dismissed out of hand).<br>
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(2) or they are subject to strong public interest regulation,
based on clearly laid of norms, public policy principles and
regulatory rules and structures. <br>
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This obviously leads us to the question of how to devise such
norms, principles and regulatory structures for what is in larger
part a 'global Internet'. There is no escape from this question,
although most of us have spent more than a decade now trying to
escape this question (or coming up with limp, if not uprightly
problematic responses, like the Net Mundial Initiative). It is
time we devote ourselves to this question. We need an adequately
federated response to this key issue of global governance of the
Internet: while the final political and regulatory authority can
only be anchored at the national level, we need global norms,
principles, and structures for building common policy responses,
model laws and regulatory systems, and means of their regular
coordination. (And God forbid if these are made at the World
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Well of course, I have been typing 'world social forum' too often
these days :)..... I surely meant , god forbid if these are made at
the world economic forum!<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:54ED6818.4000308@itforchange.net" type="cite">I
dont see any other way for us to go - unless of course we go
towards fully national Internets. <br>
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parminder <br>
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Did that have no legal basis? Is there any case trail?
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