[governance] Re: [ciresearchers] Guardian Online: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice

[Lee W McKnight]

Leaving aside the 1st hypothesis that this is already best of all possible IG worlds, re 2nd point of how present case disproves the 'un/govt taking over net' hysteria:

Well gee they've (whether 'they' is USG or other govts or...(insert name of your favorite ___bad guy___ here) really managed to 'shut down' wikileaks haven't they? 

Or, not so much. All the net king's horses and henchmen have only managed to teach everyone how to spell someone's name right.

Classic PT Barnum 101.

Really case has proven the old nethead adage that the Internet interprets censorship as a bug and routes around.

Anyway, for the IGC statement I suggest we need not get into specifics.

Main thing is to shamelessly promote ourselves/Internet Governance Caucus ----think 'what would Julian do'? ; )

Lee
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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:08 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Lee W McKnight
Cc: Michael Gurstein
Subject: Re: [governance] Re: [ciresearchers] Guardian Online: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:
> Agreed re leveraging this as talking point to draw attention to need for broader - mutlistakeholder  - IG framework.

There is already a MS IG Framework, you can see it graphically here:

http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/ecosystem.shtml

>
> Re misleading headlines, well that's how the media game is played, and I for one don't have  a problem with IGC playing that game too - for a good cause.
>
> The bogeyman of 'governments taking over' or 'UN taking over' Internet is also shown to be imaginary by the current case, we can make that point too.

I thought it was proved by the current case, no?  Governments will act
in what they perceive to be their own interests, IG Framework or not,
they will still take unilateral decisions.  Does anyone honestly think
this is not the case?


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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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