[governance] More... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (to do whatever it pleases and serves its business interests?

Tue Dec 4 13:16:32 EST 2012

Michael,

I do not think that the only thing we are left with are campaigns promoted by one or another self-serving commercial or established political interest.

There are civic-minded people and organizations who apply their principles and rational thought to problems and are able to act and react independently and honestly, and, furthermore, to go into and out of alliances for the public-benefit causes they believe in. 

For many, when a "big" actor of any kind - a company, a government or intergovernmental grouping, even some civil-society organizations - enters their side in a fight it actually becomes uncomfortable. The principles you are held become a target for mistrust and attacks. Yet these people and organizations stick to their principles and go on with clarity of purpose. 

I've been told that you are part of at least one such organization and are one such person. To how many others who do not think exactly like you in every single issue are you prepared to grant the benefit of the doubt?

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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Desde: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] en nombre de michael gurstein [gurstein at gmail.com]
Enviado el: martes, 04 de diciembre de 2012 11:57
Hasta: 'McTim'; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
CC: 'Adam Peake'
Asunto: RE: [governance] More... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (to do whatever it pleases and serves its business interests?

Yes, you (and I) may agree (with the ends) this time, and the next, and
maybe the time after that but eventually there may be no (democratic)
political process left. All we have as a political process is a mass on-line
mobilization by one self-serving Internet quasi-monopoly or another. Is that
something that you would agree with?

M

-----Original Message-----
From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:05 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
Cc: Adam Peake
Subject: Re: [governance] More... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (to do
whatever it pleases and serves its business interests?

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Adam, the issue is not the new/old business models (and I have no
> particular bias one way or another for old or new enterprises or their
> business models--and to be clear I sincerely admire and appreciate
> Google as a company, their products, their highly competent and
> effective staff and spokespeople, and their overall demeanour).
>
> What is important, as the Spiegel article is pointing to, is the way
> in which Google is using its market strength (and one should say,
> their overall new media savvy) to attempt to manipulate political
processes.

Because something is also self-serving, it doesn't make it the wrong thing
to do.

--
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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