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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/03/21 2:15 am, Mueller, Milton L
wrote:<br>
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looked over the letter and am not impressed; </span></p>
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<p><tt>Milton, thanks for responding, even though you find the
Digital Cooperation initiative irrelevant. This is certainly
much better than what many here who are actively engaged with
shaping and pushing this initiative have bothered to do. </tt><tt>I
hope they also express their response and views. </tt><font
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with the argument it presents nor with the astroturfed list
of 170 organizations.
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<p><tt>So you find the active involvement and support of global
organisations that are, for instance, the primary global
networks of grassroots organisations in areas like health,
education, food security, and conservation;</tt><tt> top global
trade unions; top global organisations working on gender
justice, and global trade; some of the most prominent global
development NGOs; as astroturfing? The most prominent among
these, if not members of Just Net Coalition, </tt><tt>are
actually in active partnerships with the JNC on Internet/
digital governance issues. And mind you, this is the support we
got over just 3 days which unfortunately included a weekend --
owing to a deadline for submitting comments to the UN process. <br>
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<p><tt>You dismiss them as some irrelevant anti-globalisation
organisations and activists from two decades ago; losers,
perhaps, who lap up any global campaign letter thrown at them
for getting their names printed on it!</tt></p>
<p><tt>I reckon then that real people's perspectives and
representation in Internet/digital governance matters should
come from from a certain professorial chair at Syracuse
University in the US, or it is that you have now shifted to
somewhere in Georgia. </tt><br>
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<p><tt>A group of around 20 prominent global organisations and
networks, having prepared this letter, are currently
collaborating over an e-list for follow-ups, including
establishing contacts with people inside the UN, government
delegates etc, apart from spreading the message wider among CS
groups and engaging them.. And this is outside the Just Net
Coalition, JNC being just a participant in this collaboration.
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<p><tt>This should puncture the pompous arrogance with which you
typically come to such matters, and we can move now to more
substantive matters. See in-line. </tt><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We
at IGP have largely, and deliberately, ignored the UN’s
initiatives around so-called High Level
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Digital
Cooperation. Not because we think it is leading in a bad
direction or is part of an evil capitalist plot, nor do we
think the people promoting it are badly motivated. We just
think it is mostly irrelevant. It is founded on model of
governance that is unrealistic and unlikely to have any
impact on the internet (or platforms, which is not the same
as the internet).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The
Internet consists of 70,000 autonomous systems using a
common layer 3 and 4 protocol to communicate. Key elements
of the internet infrastructure are governed by what we call
the Organically Developed Internet institutions, such as
IETF (standards), ICANN (domain names) the Regional Internet
Registries (IP addressing) and cooperative action among
network operators (routing, interconnection).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Because
the internet has created a globalized space for
communication, many new problems and new forms of governance
are evolving at the transnational layer that go well beyond
critical internet resources. They affect issues areas such
as cybersecurity, content moderation, and privacy. </span></p>
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<p><tt>So, you have defined Internet/ digital governance to be the
technical governance of the Internet plus largely these three
areas involving a digital version of libertarian minimal state.
You do not consider, for instance, data, AI or platform
regulation, especially the distributive issues involved therein,
as Internet/digital governance, right. You have the right to
your definitions of Internet/ digital governance, but it is
evident that the world overwhelming disagrees with you,
including the IGF (see its program). <br>
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of these transnational initiatives are, in our opinion,
praiseworthy; others are not. But it is both unlikely and
undesirable for them to be consolidated or centralized in
the hands of a single global body, whether it is called
“multistakeholder” or “intergovernmental.” No such body is
going to be able to have the power or the expertise or the
widespread legitimacy and participation to address all these
areas. Only a dialogue forum is possible at the IGF level.
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<p><tt>Two responses to this: One, lets consider the WHO; It really
</tt><tt>cannot </tt><tt>be considered as global health
governance being 'consolidated or centralized in the hands of a
single global body' . But it still does very useful norms and
standards setting work, develops global legal instruments, as
required and possible, develops and coordinates frameworks of
responses and other programmatic action, does neutral public
interest global research and capacity development, and so on.
WHO's existence has been extremely useful, and has not impeded
other transnational initiatives This is true of UN global
governance bodies in all areas. Digital is more inherently
global than any other sector. So, why would a similar body for
Internet/ digital governance not also be useful. </tt><br>
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<p><tt>Second: But if in any case you still remain absolutely
opposed to a cross-sectoral, apex, digital policy and governance
body, and I have been raising this same issue for at least 12-13
years now, why you never oppose the OECD's Committee on Digital
Economy Policy (CDEP)? </tt><tt>In the name of the body, </tt><tt>'Economy'
is there only for forms sake. This committee shapes digital
policy in all areas, from principles for tech architecture, to
platforms and content, to data and AI. Why do OECD needs a
transnational, single digital governance body, when you so
strongly oppose such a body at the global level. I have raised
this issue often, and at one time when you could not avoid
responding, you dismissed this body as a capacity building body,
which is of course an untruth. OECD committees do go as far as
developing <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0347">legal
instruments</a>. <br>
</tt></p>
<p><tt>The latest initiative of the CDEP is on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/trusted-government-access-personal-data-private-sector.htm">government
access to data held by the private sector</a>. The likely
outcomes could be a document of policy principles but it could
even be a legal instrument. Since digital policy making is a
cross-sectoral work, CDEP often works in collaboration with
other OECD Committees towards different ends. For instance, it
worked with the Committee on Health to develop <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://one.oecd.org/document/COM/DELSA/DSTI(2016)1/en/pdf">Health
Data Principles</a>. A very appropriate kind of output, and
done in the right way too. Similarly a UN body on digital
governance -- while all countries and not just the richest ones
are represented -- should work with the WHO to develop global
Health Data Principles. In default of an UN Internet/ digital
governance body, OECD's norms, principles and policies become
the default global one. </tt><br>
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<p><tt>But here you develop cold feet... OECD committees should keep
functioning and rolling out global governance norms, principles
and policies, but not any UN body. That is not needed, any such
thing is completely relevant. This is plainly a colonial
attitude. It is a pity that in the global Internet/ digital
governance space one can openly do such a thing. It normally
does not happen elsewhere, in global civil society spaces. </tt><br>
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<p><tt>You are from the US, why dont you advocate to the OECD, where
your gov sits, to cede its one-point cross-sectoral digital
norms/ policy work, and abolish the body specifically made for
this purpose? What right do you have to tell the rest of the
world to not do it? I repeat, it is plain and simple
colonialism. </tt><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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increasingly, national governments are trying to interfere
with or control usage of the internet at the application
layer. This is leading to an increasingly fragmented,
costly, and repressive environment. One could call this tech
nationalism, jurisdictional alignment, fragmentation or a
digital neo-mercantilism. IGP has published numerous
critiques of these pathologies.
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In
this context, for JustNet and its partners to portray
“regulation of big tech” as the salvation of the internet,
and the UN’s attempt to create a High Level MS Body as an
entity with “</span><span
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power” that “would help Big Tech resist effective
regulation” is just laughable. </span></p>
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<p><tt>First, the term 'overweening power' is used for Big Tech, and
not the proposed High Level MS body. And if you do not think
that Big Tech today has overweening power, which needs to be
urgently regulated, it is you who is entirely out of touch with
global intellectual, political, as well as public opinion. You
are sitting lonesomely in some untenable libertarian ivory
tower. But one thing I must commend you for is consistency. You
responded to one of my emails years back in this very same space
saying that you think 'social justice' is a meaningless term. So
while consistent you might be, you are completely out of touch
with contemporary digital reality. Internet, and those who were
associated with it, were seen 20 years ago as representing
counter power; today the Internet is controlled by those who
represent the most pernicious incumbent power. Counters have now
to be developed to this entrenched and fast expanding power. If
'your' internet governance is not taking note of this -- what is
happening just outside your window -- it is you who is stuck in
some 20 year old realities, not the organisations that developed
and supported this campaign letter. </tt></p>
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do not see how anyone with any deep knowledge of IG can take
it seriously. It has very little relevance to contemporary
problems of IG.
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<p><tt>Your IG knowledge has perhaps gone too deep - so deep that
you may be alone wallowing there in the deep, in a manner very
irrelevant to contemporary problems of IG. Although, your no
doubt incisive and well written analyses -- however besides the
point mostly -- do often provide very good cover to contemporary
'bad' digital forces. And therefore they get lapped up. Like
this current email of yours is doing great favours to the
shapers and supporters of the Digital Cooperation High Level MS
Body, who themselves have little to be able to present their
case in a democratic-discursive way, in spaces like this public
elist. <br>
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as it has any substance, it seems to call for more
nation-state based regulation of internet operations and
content. But this is something that, from Trump’s Great
Firewall of America, to Russia’s “sovereign” Internet, to
Europe’s NIS2, to India’s app blocking and censorship, to
China’s insulated internet, we already have plenty of. And
we are getting more and it seems to be making things worse.
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<p><tt>There has to be a limit to the Libertarians' clever technique
to continue quoting the undoubted statist excesses vis a vis the
digital to keep at bay appropriate regulation of Big Tech, and
also the needed national policies to escape the coming bi-polar
US-China's complete digital and AI domination of the word.
State's undue power has to be resisted at the same time as a
rule of law has to be established and applied for governing
non-state bad actors. </tt><br>
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the way, has anyone at JustNet noticed that Facebook is
joining them in their call for more internet regulation at
the national level? Think about the implications of that for
a moment:
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you read the letter, you can see that they obtained the
support of all these organization – very few of whom
actually focus on Internet or ICT governance</span></p>
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<p><tt>For you Internet governance is about core technical systems
of the Internet/ digital. For everyone else, its scope and
meaning is fast expanding outwards, getting closer to the points
and manners of the real-life impacts of the digital. There are
of course organisations in this list of 170 plus organisations
that deal centrally with digital governance, but then many
others that are looking at platform/data/AI governance in
relation to food and agriculture, health, education, trade,
gender relations, labour, and so on. There is one that is a
chief port-of-call for developing country governments on
e-commerce issues in trade deals (btw, much of IG today is done
in and through trade deals), another is represented in a new
data working group of the World Committee on Food security of
FAO, a third is developing health data principles, another
working on feminist digital justice, another on how platforms
use data to control dependent businesses, .... I can keep going,
but you get the point. <br>
</tt></p>
Should they all come to Prof Milton Mueller to get what Internet/
digital governance is!? It is perhaps time you go to them, if you
have to keep 'your' IG relevant. <br>
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– by equating the UN HLDC with the World Economic Forum.
This is factually wrong, but it does succeed at throwing red
meat in front of the anti-globalization activists from two
decades ago.
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<p><tt>No one equated UN HLDC with the WEF. It is was another WEF we
wont have such a problem. What we have shown is that UN HLDC
represent the exact unfolding of a plan for global governance
that WEF laid out 10 years back through its Global Redesign
Imitative. And we provide exact quotations. Dont you see the
difference? </tt><br>
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<p><tt>I have already described what these organisations are. You
make fun of them at your own cost. </tt><br>
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governance needs to be accomplished from the bottom up, and
rely heavily on networked, non-hierarchical forms of
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<p><tt>But not when OECD does it ... They are rich people and
nations, mostly of the western civilisation, they know what they
are doing, they have superior rights over the world! Please stop
this colonial narrative. </tt></p>
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We need to protect and strengthen, not destroy or undermine,
the organically developed internet institutions. When
state-based, hierarchical interventions are necessary, they
need to be carefully circumscribed and focused to address
real problems that cannot be handled in any other way, such
as crime, fraud, and coercion. </span></p>
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<p><tt>Your libertarian definition of the scope of Internet/ digital
governance! Sorry, developing countries at least cannot agree.
For us economic issues, regulating Big Tech, developing domestic
digital industry, etc are all very important. </tt><br>
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UN should stop trying to become a centerpoint of global
internet governance and continue to serve as a place for
dialogue and network building.
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<p><tt>Go first tell this to your country and the OECD...</tt></p>
<p><tt>Meanwhile, further discussion is very welcome.</tt></p>
<p><tt>Regards, parminder </tt><br>
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Milton L Mueller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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Governance <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance-bounces@lists.igcaucus.org"><governance-bounces@lists.igcaucus.org></a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder via Governance<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Governance] 170 orgs send an open
letter to UN SG to stop plans for a new High Level
Multistakeholder Body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>The open letter was sent to the official consultation
process, signed by more than 170 organisations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>It was titled "“More than 170 Civil Society Groups Worldwide
Oppose Plans for a Big Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital
Governance” .<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please see the final statement and endorsements at</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustnetcoalition.org%2Fbig-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cmilton%40gatech.edu%7Cb4c8944001194bc7858208d8e5e11d64%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637512102923889975%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=LINRHD5T4MZBhJN75Fvb%2BJ04O4zUY1ErnSUWmDtofb8%3D&reserved=0" moz-do-not-send="true">https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf</a> .</span> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It was also translated into Spanish, French, German and Dutch. All versions are linked from the enclosed document <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We had just 3 days to get sign ons, out of which 2 were weekend days. In the circumstances, the number is quite good. It shows the groundswell to opposition to this move. Thanks to everyone who supported this.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will now get this letter also sent directly to the UN SG and his new Tech Envoy.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will like to keep this campaign open for some time to get additional support and build awareness ...</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This ongoing campaign is just a start, much more needs to be done and will be done to stop this assault on democracy and on possibilities of effective regulation of Big Tech. We will be doing all it takes, including engaging with governments.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will follow a twin track: develop a powerful movement within civil society groups, and engage with governments and the UN.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Will keep you posted.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best regards</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">parminder</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/03/21 2:15 pm, parminder via
Governance wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif">This is an<a
href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustnetcoalition.org%2Fbig-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cmilton%40gatech.edu%7Cb4c8944001194bc7858208d8e5e11d64%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637512102923899975%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=8fVH%2BEPgBnX09zXtQUFKFKI3BwIWjbxbqDqb3cSbIzI%3D&reserved=0"
moz-do-not-send="true"> open letter to the UN
Secretary General</a> initiated by 16 global and
national level civil society networks and
organisations urging him to shelve plans for a High
Level Multistakeholder Body which, if set up, can be
expected to become the default apex global digital
governance and policy body. This body is proposed to
have a private funding model, with strong hints also
at a 'pay to play' model. It is but obvious that Big
Tech will come to dominate any such body.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri
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<p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif">Not only in developing
countries but also in the US and EU, calls for
stronger regulation of Big Tech are rising. At
the precise point when we should be shaping
global norms to regulate Big Tech, plans have
emerged for an ‘empowered’ global digital
governance body that will evidently be dominated
by Big Tech. Adding vastly to its already
overweening power, this new Body would help Big
Tech resist effective regulation, globally and
at national levels. Indeed, we face the
unbelievable prospect of ‘<b>a Big Tech led body
for Global Governance of Big Tech’</b>.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif"> Two technical annexes to
the open letter explain the background of the matter
in considerable detail.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri
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endorsements,
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif">which can be done by writing
an email to
</span><u><span style="color:navy"><a
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style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif"> before midnight PST (GMT-8)
of the 7<sup>th
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">of
March.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri
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other groups and networks where it may attract
interest.
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<p class="western"
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style="font-family:"Calibri
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accessed at
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https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri
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href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustnetcoalition.org%2Fbig-tech-governing-big-tech-french.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cmilton%40gatech.edu%7Cb4c8944001194bc7858208d8e5e11d64%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637512102923909974%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=JOSC%2FHFG4omaj9tdxgm5%2FJ%2FF7Ft5jg0gNv%2FCL%2BiG970%3D&reserved=0"
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https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech-spanish.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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