[governance] Icann makes a very British compromise over net policing

[Robert Guerra]

The following article about IGF was published yesterday in the  
Guardian (UK). Thought it might be of interest to the list...


Icann makes a very British compromise over net policing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/29/internet.politics

The IGF was set up to help the bodies that govern the internet become  
more democratically minded and more globally focused

   [snipped]

Civil libertarians on both sides of the Atlantic criticise the IGF for  
dealing only with trivia, while avoiding the "big difficult issues" of  
the internet: openness, free speech, human rights. They forget that  
the IGF was created specifically to avoid the divisive and intractable  
debates that threatened to wreck the Tunis summit.

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