[governance] Multi-stakeholder model, evolution and revolution

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Thu Dec 6 05:12:03 EST 2012


Yes, I was wondering. Because the US has signed on to the budapest
convention early on, except for a section that deals with glorification of
naziism / racial hatred and such, which comes into conflict with the first
amendement.

Jeremy Malcolm [06/12/12 22:55 +1300]:
>On 06/12/2012, at 10:48 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>
>> I worry that the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" meme with which most
>> are approaching WCIT will solidify into a general opposition to any
>> global norm-setting outside of the Internet technical community's
>> institutions, and that Internet policy development will thereby be
>> confined to the national level.  This is not helped by the US
>> government's predisposition to avoid taking on international obligations
>> (the Disabilities Treaty being the latest example, besides the Law of
>> the Sea, the International Criminal Court, the Cybercrime Convention,
>> the Treaty for the Visually Impaired, etc) - except of course through
>> multilateral trade agreements!  I think we need to work on addressing
>> that perception, and point out that:
>
>Of course ignore "Cybercrime Convention" above, don't know why I wrote that.
>
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