[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[parminder]

On Sunday 17 May 2015 08:55 PM, McTim wrote:
> snip

> The simplest argument is that it HAS been bottom up, open,
> transparent, consensus based decision making, etc for the last 40
> years. So it IS and HAS BEEN different since inception, and has been
> VERY successful. 

For more that 4000 years trade has been based on rules that were
developed mutually among trade guilds, in a rather bottom up and
consensual, and, among them, open and transparent ways  ..... That did
not stop trade (or property)  from currently being governed by
democratic, national and global, means, and I hear no argument that
trade and property be governed by multistakeholder means. (Although I
know, as multistakeholder-ism makes progress in the IG space, such
proposals will surface. That is the plan.)

The argument you give is part of a pack of make-believes that is bandied
around  - included through numerous well -funded 'capacity building' and
such initiatives financed by the powerful -
to give respectability to a model that serves the powerful and the
status quo. As you can see above there is no basis of Internet
exceptionalism of the kind you argue... parminder