[governance] Egypt and Internet Governance

[Roland Perry]

In message <C96B527E.15C5D%ian.peter at ianpeter.com>, at 17:38:06 on Sun, 
30 Jan 2011, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> writes
>To me the first basic rule in these situations is that companies should be
>required and should agree to act only on judicial orders, not to political
>pressure.

And what if the Judge has no choice but to rubber-stamp a piece of paper 
where the government is declaring (under laws previously drawn up by 
politicians) that it's a national emergency?

[This is a general point, not aimed at any particular country or 
incident].
-- 
Roland Perry
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