<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Donne (17th century English poet) wrote – Any man’s death diminishes me because I
am involved in mankind. I borrowed from him last year in Istanbul.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The death of a good man becomes a total loss, unless we
remember his actions, learn from them and perpetuate them. We are currently
remembering Ronald Koven's actions – can we learn and perpetuate?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s the same thing with words. Last year we greeted Nnenna’s
speech at Netmundial with great enthusiasm. Daniel (Pimienta) suggested that we
might distill the speech to arrive at a set of principles. It didn’t get done.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This year we will be inspired all over again by Joana and
Nadine – but will there be a lasting effect, an “outcome”?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is this something that is worth thinking about by the IGC?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Deirdre</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 November 2015 at 02:27, Jean-Christophe Nothias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanchristophe.nothias@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeanchristophe.nothias@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Good to see such an expert in hoax coming to support MM.<div><br></div><div>I suppose other "technics or science studies" hoaxes such as mass surveillance whistleblowing story by Edward Snowden, to denounce the champions of multistakeholder freedom of expression, occupy a full chapter in this book subtitled "when shit hits the fan". Paint it the color you want, serious issues are pending in your wonderful asymmetric digital world.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Le 2 nov. 2015 à 07:02, Suresh Ramasubramanian a écrit :</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">The technique you describe, Milton, is reminescent of that fine old charade called “science studies” - neither scientific nor a study, as the Sokal Hoax so ably demonstrated :)<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313</a></div><div><br></div><div>(I believe the book is also published as “Fashionable Nonsense” in some countries).</div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Optima;line-height:normal;border-spacing:0px;font-size:inherit"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-color:blue;border-left-width:1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Ironically, you were the one who started this thread by couching a political argument in technical terms. The current internet was worse, you said, because it was less P2P and more concentrated. You said that apps were more closed technically, etc. So after making half-baked claims about how the technical system is evolving you shouldn’t be complaining when people expect you to know your tech. </span></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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