<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Deirdre, thank you for taking the time to send such a wise and constructive post. I for one was very glad to read it.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards, Nick<br class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Oct 2015, at 14:58, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" class="">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Dear Suresh and Everyone,</div><div class="gmail_quote">I've been wondering about Suresh's subject line. Of course it's the truth. A lot of us do disagree, which is surely the raison d'etre for the IGC.</div><div class="gmail_quote">I have an appeal to make.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Each person writing to this list - please, before you press send, read what you have written and ask yourself whether, if you received such a ,message, you would be hurt or offended. If the answer is yes then please try to edit what you have written for the list. If your intention was to hurt and offend then send that message directly to its intended recipient.</div><div class="gmail_quote">And when you read the messages - try not to assume that hurt and offense were the writer's intention. Some years ago I told my husband not to be "daft" in circumstances in which for me it was a "hug word" - a word to comfort and give support. He didn't speak to me for what felt like 3 months. The word has different connotations in his culture. Anger about something else is good at blinding one to everything.</div><div class="gmail_quote">This list is supposed to be about discussing issues, not providing a space for the clash of personalities.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Suresh suggests that "Engaging in debate would be useful". I wholeheartedly agree with him. And to be really useful the debate must be as inclusive as possible. Civil society is not only "those people who share my perspective". Civil society is all of us. To be effective it needs to be united and therefore all of those very difficult issues about which we may hold very contradictory views need to be patiently discussed and negotiated until we can reach some sort of "civil society" position.</div><div class="gmail_quote">It is very much in the interest of some parties in this global debate that civil society should be divided and ruled.</div><div class="gmail_quote">We have the power to stop this, but it will need self-discipline and patience.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Deirdre</div><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 October 2015 at 22:46, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank" class="">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">But it's interesting to see an articulate voice advocate "the other side" and call out some of the commentary on this issue as ill informed and politically aimed rhetoric </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Engaging in debate would be useful so the author of this piece can get a more informed : balanced and less politically driven perspective of neutrality</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://m.hindustantimes.com/columns/net-neutrality-war-is-not-just-facebook-versus-internet-mullahs/story-s9eZpZnomaaiz4De8fYfaK.html" target="_blank" class="">http://m.hindustantimes.com/columns/net-neutrality-war-is-not-just-facebook-versus-internet-mullahs/story-s9eZpZnomaaiz4De8fYfaK.html</a><br class=""><br class="">--srs</div></div><br class="">____________________________________________________________<br class="">
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