[bestbits] [governance] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[Michael Gurstein]

Wow Jeremy you sound really perturbed (disturbed?).  Did Richard "disrupt" a
stitch up that you and your US and UK government/corporate funded mates had
worked out at one of your 5 star retreats.  And what/when exactly did all
you folks decide to abandon democracy in favour of whatever
multistakeholderism flavour of the day you happen to be peddling.

 

For those folks who couldn't get through your turgid prose and convoluted
semi-arguments let me summarize... "we good folks believe in Motherhood,
apple pie, the American way and oh yes, multistakeholderism (sorry we don't
really have a definition for it but we want to add it to the sacred Pantheon
anyway); they, the bad guys, the JNC believe in the dark side, Darth Vader
and oh yes, democracy...

 

Or equally your tweet...

 

: Jeremy Malcolm @qirtaiba  .  17 hours ago

:

: Chris Painter from USG supports my observation that proposal to add

: "democratic" to "multi-stakeholder" has baggage to it #netstudy

 

 

But it is good that you and your mates are finally going public on this, so
maybe we should ask for a show of hands... Who here is prepared to follow
Jeremy and the USG in publicly expressing the position that they have
decided to abandon democracy in favour of oligarchy err
multistakeholderism/governance by the 1%.

 

EFF? Access? APC? UNESCO?  ISOC? South Africa? Brazil? France?

 

Don't be shy...

                                           

M

 

-----Original Message-----                                      
From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org] 
Sent: March 4, 2015 5:27 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Michael Gurstein
Cc: anita at itforchange.net; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Subject: Re: [governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of
"Connecting the Dots Conference"

 

On Mar 4, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Michael Gurstein < <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>
gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

> Perhaps we could have an explanation from Jeremy and others on the
drafting committee as to when and how "democracy" and "social and economic
rights' became unacceptable terms in a document meant to have global
significance?

 

 

With pleasure.  This is why:

 

 
<http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/unesco-resists-jncs-attempt-to-turn-de
mocracy-against-ordinary-internet-users>
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/unesco-resists-jncs-attempt-to-turn-dem
ocracy-against-ordinary-internet-users

 

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