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

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu]
> 
> Private violations are usually done for personal interest, much like all
> the business cases of non-neutrality on whose undesirability we all

You have what I perceive as a very naïve view of political processes. Public violations are also done for personal interest, by people who hold the levers of power or have strong influence among those who do. The distinction is not a useful one. 

> Public violations, at least, should come from collective sentiments and
> through democratic processes. Of course you have issues with a possible
> "dictatorship of the majority", so we should err on the side of less
> filtering, than on the side of more filtering. In other words, they
> should be limited to the bare minimum that a society finds necessary -
> see for example article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights:

As a matter of fact there will of course be deivations from freedom of expression based on "collective sentiments and democratic processes." And we are in violent agreement that this should be minimized. 

> (BTW, Milton - there's a "right wing" reason for network
> neutrality too, which is promoting liberal market competition). But even

Hmm, I find this terminology bizarre. There is nothing "right wing" about liberal market competition. Fascists (far right) and communists (far left) share an antipathy to liberal freedoms, the market and competition. Moreover rightists are inevitably nationalist, it is perhaps the most important distinction. And nothing is more anti-nation


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