[governance] BBC: May setting out plans to monitor internet use in UK

[Milton L Mueller]

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> 
> Whilst experts discuss Internet freedom, democracy and governance in a
> multi-stakeholder environment in Stockholm, politicians work on another
> agenda...

Right. Right. Right. This is why the ITU conspiracy talk irritates me so much. National govts - of all types and stripes - are objectively a far greater threat to Internet freedom. Not that the ITU is no threat at all, but it can't do much without a fairly wide consensus among national govt members, and the inordinate amount of attention devoted to it has certain features of a diversionary tactic.

> Personal comment: if democratic countries do this, what message does
> this send to undemocratic countries?

Exactly. 


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