[governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance"

[linda misek-falkoff]

Educational.  Query, on a third hand ...

Do multiple spam filters on intermediary systems which whittle away at the
corpus of delivered messages fall on the ok or not-ok side?   (Please
reconstrue in any more apt terms).

Best wishes, Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
*Respectful Interfaces*.


On 11/8/07, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu]
> > I am just afraid of the idea of collapsing the battle for network
> > neutrality with the battle for a sort of "global online first amendment"
> > that says that nothing should be censored ever. It's not democracy
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> A "two-handed" answer for you, Vittorio.
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> On the one hand a NN policy, as Dan and I have noted repeatedly, does not
> make it impossible to declare certain kinds of content illegal, and to
> prosecute those responsible for creating, publishing or using/possessing it.
> A NN policy also does not prevent families from installing filters on their
> own terminal devices and for private web sites to refuse to carry certain
> kinds of content.
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> On the other hand NN does militate against systematic use of the network
> intermediary (either state-mandated blocking or private vertical
> integration) to implement content regulation goals. It also would shift the
> burden of proof against states that attempt to disguise trade discrimination
> in digital content as "public order" mandated censorship. In some cases it
> means that content people don't like will be accessible. (Not that it isn't
> already.)
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> As for "breaking the front," I see no "front" to be broken. Free
> expression advocacy and NN advocacy are linked closely. No, a global NN
> principle does not necessarily mean a global US-style first amendment, but
> if you're not already pretty far along on the left side of the free
> expression spectrum it's hard to understand why you'd be interested in a NN
> policy. What does it accomplish for you If not a liberalization on the
> constraints on internet expression and interaction?
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