[governance] The Big Brother is everywhere now - Assange

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CACAaNxia-PPQCza_3yoJSEZH43sweguK9ej_xXTCEbthXqLUUw at mail.gmail.com>, at 
06:42:46 on Fri, 2 Dec 2011, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> writes
>You are conflating many things here.  I would suggest that the
>governance of CIRs has very little to do with net freedom.  How can
>ICANN, for example, regulate the behavior of Apple, Google or SWIFT?

...

>If you want to enshrine Big Brother, there is no better way than to
>give governments free hand to regulate the Internet.

Regulate the Internet, or regulate CIRs? (eg why would governments be 
more successful than ICANN vis-à-vis Apple etc).

In a nutshell we have the problem with debate about regulation - is it 
connectivity, content, or some combination like DNS, that you are 
speaking about?
-- 
Roland Perry
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