[governance] Yes! Hands off the Internet!

[Michael Leibrandt]

Hi Michael,

If your local car dealer rejects to sell you a car, or if the local night 
club doesn't let you in, there isn't much you can do about it. Private 
providers of goods and services are generally free to decide whom to serve. 
At least until it becomes an act of discrimination, e. g. against blacks, 
gays or jews. Or if the provider has a monopoly (clearly not the case for 
Google or Facebook), or has such a strong market position that it can 
actually control the market.

So to compare government action and company behaviour is quite difficult. 
But there is already enough hypocrisy to think about with regard to 
stakeholders of the same category ;-)

Michael, Berlin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 12:17 AM
Subject: [governance] Yes! Hands off the Internet!


> (from today's various Internet news feeds....
>
> Yes, for sure, these hands off the Internet.
>
> http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/china-tightens-internet-control-b
> ans-anonymity-allows-government-to-delete-posts/censorship-online-twitter-we
> ibo-xinhua-/c3s10510/#.UN2qcI7896I
> http://tinyurl.com/cryyx5l
>
> And these
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121228/07170621508/fisa-is-renewed-with-a
> ll-its-problems-still-intact.shtml
> http://tinyurl.com/d7trx4j
>
> And these
> http://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-50-million-pirate-search-results-this
> -year-121228/
> http://tinyurl.com/d7trx4j
>
> And these
> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/washingtons-blog-facebook-censors-pro
> minent-political-critics.html
> http://tinyurl.com/cn72l3v
>
> Maybe a New Year's Resolution: Enough with the hypocrisy!
>
> M
>
>
>


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