[governance] RE: [NA-Discuss] ALAC and NCUC

[Karl Auerbach]

Dan Krimm wrote:
> At 7:11 PM -0700 4/19/07, Michael Gurstein wrote:
>> Okay, so you are suggesting, in "policy making processes surrounding the
>> Internet" we have universal suffrage including in this instance
>> basically anyone/everyone--every age, status...

It is sensible to adopt the normal constraints that require a person to 
be of adequate age and mental competency.

And by "universal suffrage" I would hope that we are not assuming that 
that necessarily means a direct democratic vote on every issue - 
representative forms in which elections for representatives occur every 
couple of years, and in which the representatives are plenary 
decisionmakers and not simply members that elect other members to a long 
succession of Russian-doll like bodies.

> No, natural persons only (perhaps "legal persons" as well, but not
> machines).

Let's not remake the major mistake of giving civil rights to legal 
fictions such as corporations.  The people who own/control such fictions 
have voices and through those voices the fictions will have more than 
adequate means to make their desires known.

		--karl--


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