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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

A friend of mine on another list posted this which is from the Regulators in
Germany, see https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/<https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm>
20110819-facebook-en.htm<https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm>

Apparently Facebook has till September 2011 to comply.

Sala

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:55 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> and yet another example:
>
> "Facebook ‘like’ button declared illegal" (DE)
>
> http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110819-37073.html
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> But above level 1 things get complicated. There have been many attempts to
>> regulate for example, assignment of IP address space. So far most telecom
>> laws expressly exclude regulating IP addresses and domain names, because the
>> authority for those reside outside their jurisdiction.
>>
>
>
> This is the key sentence in this entire discussion IMO....over the last 3
> decades or so, the "authority" in this example area of Internet Governance
> has evolved from a "one guy with a notebook" model to a
> global, multi-stakeholder led, BUTOC (Bottom Up, Transparent Open,
>  Consensus) based model.  This allows for "true democracy"
> or participatory democracy by which governments are somewhat
> "dis-intermediated" so that while governments do participate in this policy
> development area, representation of individual Internet users and other
> entities is actively encouraged.  I, for one, greatly prefer my democracy to
> be participatory.
>
> This is just one example of how the Internet "is different".
> --
> 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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-- 
Sala

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