[governance] Program for IGC at IGF

[Vittorio Bertola]

George Sadowsky ha scritto:
> I don't claim to be able to explain the behavior of the Internet 
> industry in all countries, but I will claim that an unbiased competitive 
> environment is generally essential, and government policy matters a lot 
> in achieving it.

I agree, but the competitive environment has proved not to be able to 
solve a number of problems alone - for example, thanks to the very 
competitive environment, our mountain and countryside villages here in 
Italy are not getting even reasonably stable dialup Internet 
connections, let alone broadband. Competition alone might not solve all 
problems, and policy should not just be concerned with ensuring competition.

Also, we should acknowledge that in many cases it is the Internet 
industry itself that does a lot to prevent competition and deploy 
policies and technologies that thwart it: see Microsoft for operating 
systems, see net neutrality issues, see DRMs and trusted computing, etc.

I think that some people are oversensitive to the market & competition 
buzzwords just because sometimes they are used to deny aspects like 
these, and that's why some eyebrows were raised. But no one here 
advocates the birth of the Global Emperor of the Internet.
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