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

[Anne Jellema]

Ah thanks - and apologies for inadvertent re-posting - sometimes hard to
keep up with all the traffic on the list!
Anne


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Carolina Rossini <
carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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