[governance] [bestbits] Three NETmundial submissions launched for endorsement at bestbits.net

[Rafik Dammak]

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> I'm just going to respond briefly to this discrete point since my name was
> mentioned.  If you take another look at my NETmundial submission, or indeed
> at anything else that I have written, I have never specified that there
> must be equality at the level of formal political power, and actually have
> said the opposite.  My support has always been for multi-stakeholder
> processes that develop soft law, which at their intersection with national
> and international legal systems would have to be implemented through by
> parliaments, courts, treaties, etc.
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> Anyway, it is clear that there is a greater than ever divergence between
> those of us who support the development of multi-stakeholder global
> Internet governance and those who will continue to place their faith in
> intergovernmentalism, and we will both claim that it is in support of
> democracy.  I don't have a problem with the division or the debate, but can
> we resist taking such a badgering tone?  I really doubt that that form of
> discourse is going to convince anyone to switch their views.
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+1

Rafik
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