[governance] US hearing on International Proposals to Regulate the Internet

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Speaking of inclusive and multi-stakeholder debates on Internet
governance reform, this will not be happening on 31 May at the US House
Committee on Energy and Commerce, when there will be a hearing on
"International Proposals to Regulate the Internet" with the following
(closed) list of witnesses:

The Honorable Robert McDowell
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission

The Honorable David A. Gross
Former U.S. Coordinator
International Communications and Information Policy

Ms. Sally Shipman Wentworth
Senior Manager, Public Policy
Internet Society

http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=9543

The event will be streamed at http://energycommerce.house.gov/ and it
may be worth at least following and tweeting about it (there is a tweet
box on the front page of the site).

As an aside, the Energy and Commerce Committee site is full of partisan
slurs again "Obamacare", environmentalists, anti-nuclear activists and
the like.

We can expect the depth of intellectual debate at this hearing to rise
to the level of "America invented the Internet, we don't want no UN
bureaucrats from Iran or China meddling with it!".

-- 
*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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