[bestbits] RE: [IRPCoalition] Blogpost: Civil Society and the Emerging Internet Cold War: Non-Alignment and the Public Interest

[michael gurstein]

McTim, my point was and remains that there are a range of issues involved in
these matters and that the polarization generated at the WCIT may serve the
interests of some but it doesn't necessarily reflect reality nor the
interests/values of CS.

CS should be looking for higher ground (to my mind support for the Internet
as a global public good) and finding allies in support of this wherever they
can found.  The focusing in the WCIT (and dare I say before that at the IGF)
on the Internet Freedom issue by certain elements within CS and others
ignored the very large range of issues on which agreement could and should
be found and overall as I said CS should be "non-aligned" in the emerging
"Internet Cold War" and developing it's own position(s) which include among
others free expression, human rights, and digital inclusion.

M

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From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:29 PM
To: michael gurstein
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; bestbits at lists.igcaucus.org; IRP
Subject: Re: [IRPCoalition] Blogpost: Civil Society and the Emerging
Internet Cold War: Non-Alignment and the Public Interest

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:55 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've no idea of the position of "China, Russia, Iran etc." on the 
> issue, but at least from my reading there was considerable support for 
> the below among the "sovereigntist" camp

"The approved Resolution was unanimously supported by ITU Member States"

I don't see your point.  Everyone supported this resolution according to the
BDT press release, which is hilarious BTW...."ITU is at the very heart of
the ICT sector" for example.


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Cheers,

McTim
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