[bestbits] US State Department launches its own open internet petition site

[Carolina Rossini]

yesterday I also sent the official email from the US gov to the BB list.
You all can check it for some of the context.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:

> Thanks Anne for sharing.
>
>
> This is fully consistent with Ambassader Donahoe statement during the WEF
> meeting in Geneva (see video) that her only major concern was to gain
> legitimacy through public support. She expressed her view very clearly so
> that legitimacy is not about a democratic approach through governments but
> directly through the large number of people supporting whatever the US
> wants. So any initiative convening CS and any other stakeholder will be
> good enough to prove the legitimate support to US views of an "open
> Internet".
>
> So this is the clear "technical" solution to her statement and US
> department approach. The choice of going after a number of supporters bring
> no legitimacy at all. Let's not even go back to George Sadovksy 's comment
> about the not-totally-representativity of the UN.
>
> Well, it seems like nothing changes.
>
> JC
>
> ** Donahoe's job in Geneva is to articulate the US State department stand
> on all Human Rights issues. Donahoe (a Clintonette) has been the one
> organizing visits of Silicon Valley for foreign diplomats based in Geneva.
> She is also the one funding all initiatives to show how good is the US as
> supporting bloggers (Freedom Internet fighters...) and constantly
> showcasing the US as the champion of Freedom of expression. She hardly
> comments about mass surveillance being such a HR infringement. I would also
> remind everyone that the head of the US diplomats in Geneva's core mission
> for the last six years was to secure Intellectual property policy in favor
> of the US. One of the results of that aggressive IP US policy was to gain a
> "fast-track" process to be implemented in the US for all inventors who
> would wish to register a patent in the US in a very short time. That is
> something not very well known but with a great impact to counter the fact
> that China became 3 or 4 years ago the global leader in patent
> registrations. Just wondering i all countries are eligible for the
> fact-track IP desk.
>
>
>
> Le 2 sept. 2014 à 11:22, Anne Jellema a écrit :
>
> Hi all
>
> Just launched:
>
> https://openinternet.state.gov/
>
> Looks like State is no longer content with just funding NGOs - they now
> want to *be* one! ;-)
>
> Anyone have more info on this initiative?
>
> Best
> Anne
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