[governance] Another Immovable Legal Object Meeting An Irresistable Internet Force (this time it ain't Taipei...

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 13.08.11 07:02, Paul Lehto wrote:
> If the internet is "different" specifically in the sense of the
> application of law, then the speaker is claiming that all or part of
> the internet is above the Rule of Law.
Nice try Paul, but please don't claim I suggested any of this!
Internet is different. :) Here, in this reality humans can freely 
express and those who read sometimes understand.

All I said is, because Internet is different, in that it obeys no 
borders, there is no applicable law of 'democratic nature', designed 
outside of the Internet, that is applicable to Internet as whole.

This is because by (your) definition, let me cite:

    The Rule of Law refers to the priority or primacy of the laws made by
    actions of freely elected legislatures over everything else that is
    "against the law", so long as those democratically adopted laws are
    not unconstitutional, and don't violate universal human rights.

Internet is a different reality, than the physical world. It crosses any 
and all borders of the physical world.

I asked you a simple question. Let me ask again: how does a 
"democratically elected" entity in one country have any power in another 
country, where that same entity is NOT democratically elected to have 
that power?

Otherwise, I agree -- everything you say is correct, in theory. Only 
problem is you try to project it in a different reality, where the 
projection might not even make sense.

Daniel
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