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

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

hi jeremy

i replied to this.. and then realised you had sent to the old address...

want to repost?  and then i will resend my reply

cheers..

anriette

PS - I really appreciated your comments last week in the 'economy' thread

On 28/05/2012 04:56, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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!".
> 

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