[governance] The Big Brother is everywhere now - Assange

[Riaz K Tayob]

... and a problem with legitimacy. Legitimacy and Effectiveness are twin 
prongs of international law.

And a holistic perspective is needed, not least because of the use of 
the CIRs and other groups to conflate Intellectual Property protected 
brand names with domain names... looked at atomistically this may not 
have been a problem, but at a particular level of abstraction there are 
serious concerns...

On 2011/12/02 02:30 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> 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?

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