[governance] A false consensus is broken

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Fri Dec 21 19:35:12 EST 2012


On 21/12/2012 14:24, Adam Peake wrote:
> When Saudi Arabia (yes, that bastion of democracy and fairness) said
> is was unacceptable one party got everything it wants, they were not
> talking about the worrisome extension of state rights you for some
> misguided reason seem to support, but the proposal by Russia, UAE,
> China, Saudi, Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt to very much take over
> the Internet. Saudi and UAE were threatening to bring that rubbish
> back to the plenary.

and for the record, Egypt completely disassociated itself with this
leaked text, tweeting that they had not even been consulted, so their
country had been listed without their consent. Nice move from the
proponents of the paper!

This week-end was not a pretty sight.

Kind regards,

Olivier

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