[governance] Inputs for synthesis paper

[Parminder]

> bracketed text above unnecessary IMO, plus it doesn't read well.

If it is only about reading well, we can try and make it read well. For
grammar's sake we cant sacrifice substantive stuff. Specific rights - here,
FoE and privacy - need to mentioned. The statement is too weak without that.


What about. "The openness and diversity of the internet has a strong basis
in and for widely recognized (but still imperfectly enforced) basic human
rights: the individual right to freedom of expression and to privacy."

> I would snip the whole bit below as both controversial and not needed
> to mention specific rights:

As stated often here, that would not be acceptable to me/ others. As said
above without some kind of references of specific rights and rights debates
the statement is too weak, and largely meaningless and ineffectual.


Parminder 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:00 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Parminder
> Subject: Re: [governance] Inputs for synthesis paper
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Accordingly the para should read
> >
> > "The openness and diversity of the internet provide an avenue for widely
> recognized (but still imperfectly enforced) basic human rights:  [the
> individual right to freedom of expression and to privacy].  It may also be
> useful to explore if and how other kinds of rights may be meaningful in
> relation to the Internet
> 
> bracketed text above unneccessary IMO, plus it doesn't read well.
> 
> I would snip the whole bit below as both controversial and not needed
> to mention specific rights:
> 
> [; for instance, a 'right to the Internet', which may relate to the
> IGF's 'access' theme, and a right of cultural expression - including
> the right to have an Internet in ones own language, which can inform
> the important IGF thematic area of 'cultural diversity'."]
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> mctim.blogspot.com


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