<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Interesting quote:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><i>The concerns expressed here with multistakeholderism are sounded as a general warning about the neoliberal directions in which it takes us, rather than a dismissal of the promising and important content of the commission’s report.</i></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><i>The report is at least sensitive to the need to keep all players – whether corporate or state – accountable, <b>within the law, </b>and responsive to a greatly enhanced set of tech norms and ethics, a point championed <a href="http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2015/04/global-effort-needed-to-rebuild-trust-and-resillience-in-the-open-internet/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition-property: border-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.15s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">in particular</a> by the group’s tech-savvy Dutch Liberal MEP Marietje Schaake.</i></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><i><b>However, it is a worry that the report does not even consider the mechanisms by which an international and social consensus might be achieved on the issues being addressed</b>. The social compact may be advanced pragmatically, because <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2551164" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition-property: border-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.15s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">better alternatives</a> are not considered feasible or reachable. But the concern is that, by appealing to what is, in effect, self-regulation, the compact will become a diluted pacifier, and a ceiling, rather than a f</i>loor.</p></span><div><div>Le 20 avr. 2015 à 14:50, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/17/can-the-internet-be-saved-without-harming-democracy">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/17/can-the-internet-be-saved-without-harming-democracy</a><br><br>FYI<br><br>w<br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing<br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance<br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> http://www.igcaucus.org/<br><br>Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>