[governance] SOPA

[parminder]

On Saturday 07 April 2012 09:56 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> FYI
>
> Brigner moved from MPAA to ISOC. Interesting move :-)))
>    

And before that he was at Verizon, emphatically opposing network 
neutrality. I am not sure what does ISOC see itself as, I mean what kind 
of organisation, based on what kind of principles. After all, it is 
often accepted as the face of the technical community by policy forums 
like IGF, CSTD, OECD etc.

It is this new age, completely unprincipled take on public interest 
engagements with policy forums that I find very problematic and 
distressing (continuing from the issues raised in exchanges with John 
Curran on the the Broadband Commission). We are losing the basic norms 
and values of democratic public life, and the IG civil society seem 
least bothered about this erosion. Somehow, only one 'principle' is 
sacrosant, multistakeholderism, which too, interestingly, its strongest 
adherent are always hesitant to get into a real debate about.

parminder

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> http://news.cnet.com/8618-31921_3-57404804.html?assetTypeId=12&messageId=12154966&tag=mncol&txt
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> Happy Easter
>
> Wolfgang
>
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