[governance] People's Daily of China: US must hand over Internet control to the world

[Riaz K Tayob]

Bollow, while I tend to disagree with the quote you cite and some 
aspects of formulation (eg necessary propaganda like single root 
arguments), the prescription you suggest seems most reasonable and 
imminently capable of reasoned and collective action.


On 2012/08/21 06:47 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Matthias Kettemann <matthias.kettemann at uni-graz.at> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Rebecca .. certainly illuminating. What's really interesting
>> is that most calls for "internationalization" of Internet Governance
>> issues are actually calls for a re-nationalization via the United
>> Nations. It's a new type of 'bluewashing'
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluewash> national censorship policies.
> Good point.
>
> The propaganga goals of governments engaging in political Internet
> censorship are already served to a significant extent by them being
> able (with some credibility) to point fingers at "the U.S. control over
> the world's Internet".
>
> These propaganda objectives will of course be served even more
> effectively if they succeed in gaining a significant amount of traction
> at ITU for their demands.
>
> I would suggest that conversely, from the perspective of promoting human
> hights of communication, the public interest would be best served by a
> refort of the institutional arrangements of Internet governance which
> removes all credibility in assertions of "the U.S. control over
> the world's Internet", while the reformed institutional arrangements
> must be designed with the objective of promoting human rights.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>


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