[governance] China supports UK Internet Policy

[Riaz K Tayob]

Of course I am!

It was a cheeky slight intended for those who advocated the almost 
absolute supremacy of Northern governance regimes, including 
"representative" ICANN over any other arrangements!

While these debates are learning processes, and things move on and 
change, for me the tenor of these issues are merely an indication of a 
proverbial North/South divide in discourse on these matters. So called 
claims to universalism that do violence to difference, in other words. 
While many may not feel empathy, my hat tips to Parminder et al for 
chugging along despite these pressures.

riaz


On 2011/08/20 11:21 AM, McTim wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com 
> <mailto:riaz.tayob at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     What wonderful convergence! Of course the mainstream media
>     reporting on countries in the South doing this has/had an edge of
>     "look at how primitive these people are" while the case of the UK
>     considering such actions are more "reasonable", "measured" and
>     "considered".
>
>     And if we take the recent years preponderant arguments of this
>     forum of democratizing institutions (like control over Critical
>     Internet Resources) so that some form of control can be exercised,
>     why not simply expand ICANN's control so its mandate can cover
>     these kinds of "censorship" issues too? In for a penny in for
>     pound, eh?
>
>
>
> I hope you are joking!!
>
> -- 
> 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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