[governance] RE: On the process of proposing workshop themes

[Konstantinos Komaitis]

Governments have only one right to sovereignty ­ I think this is important
in the context of the international Internet. Perhaps a workshop theme could
include the governments¹ sovereignty as opposed to the non-sovereign state
of the Internet. The case of ccTLDs could be used as a good starting point
for the discussion.

Konstantinos


On 26/03/2009 13:34, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at SYR.EDU> wrote:

> Governments do not have any "rights;" they have powers. Only people have
> rights. Insofar as governmental powers are justified and just, they are held
> and exercised to secure rights for people.
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
> ------------------------------
> Internet Governance Project:
> http://internetgovernance.org <http://internetgovernance.org/>
>  
> 
>>  
>> Perhaps the workshop could address aspects related to the Rights of
>> Governments, apart from focussing on the Rights of the Users?   Governments
>> of the world might want to argue that they have a right to demand  certain
>> content removed - You Tube has faced such rights based requests in the
>> recent past and now.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Governments would like to argue that they have a moral right to filter,  and
>> to censor inappropriate content ????
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> What is this "rights-based values and principles for internet governance"
>> any way? Define rights, principles and then enact laws according to the
>> agreed  values and principles ???
>>  
>> 
>>  
> 

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Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
Lecturer in Law,
GigaNet Membership Chair,
University of Strathclyde,
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