[governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

[parminder]

McTim wrote:
> Prmndr, Lee, Ian, et. al,
>
>   
> I have a hypothetical question (that may not be so hypothetical, if
> the actions by some re: CSTD are anything to go by).
>
> If the governemtns of the world decided they would build a "framework"
> of some kind re: IG, but shut out all non-governmental actors in its
> development, would you all still be in favor of said framework
> building?
>   
McTim,

Also entirely a hypothetical response (framed as a question) bec I do 
not support a simple acceptance of the imperfect governance structure 
presented in my response.

Would you like to live without a government at all, or with a government 
that is not perfect, while keeping up all efforts to perfect it.

Either you are completely anarchist, or you have simply decided that the 
Internet and the new social paradigm shaped by the Internet is somehow, 
magically, a territory completely different from the world we live in 
and have known and it requires no political governance. This assumption 
of a large number of what often gets called as the technical community 
(though I never understood the real meaning of this term) is to me so 
basically faulty that it is difficult to engage with questions raised 
upon it, which, without meaning any disrespect, is the nature of most of 
your questions to me. parminder






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