[governance] 'search neutrality' to go with net neutrality

[Jeanette Hofmann]

> 
> I wonder how many people on this list would wish that governments got
> themselves organised, and [attempted to] sort out all the perceived ills
> on the Internet, on the grounds that they believe the current mechanisms
> were failing their collective citizens?

Here is quote from Larry Lessig that I recently used:

"In a world drowning in spam, computer viruses, identity theft, 
copyright 'piracy', and the sexual exploitation of children, the resolve 
against regulation has weakened. We all love the Net. But if some 
government could really deliver on the promise to erase all the bads of 
this space, most of us would gladly sign up."

I think what has changed over the last decade is that the belief in the 
Internet's capacity for for self-regulation has lost its original 
traction. But public regulation hasn't become the default solution. The 
debate is about where, when and how governments should play a role. In 
this respect, the Internet has become more similar to other policy 
fields, hasn't it?
jeanette
> 
> And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is most of the IG debate in a nutshell.
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