[governance] White House Statement on "Ensuring An Open Internet"

Louis Pouzin (well) pouzin at well.com
Tue May 8 07:06:29 EDT 2012


It sounds like Sesame street. Sleep well, Uncle Sam takes care.

How about Amazon, Apple, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and
the likes of ACTA, SOPA, etc. ? Open and multi-stakeholder, is it ?

The White House dialectic is skirting major stakes.

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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
>  " Central to the Internet’s value as a platform for innovation,
> democracy, access to information and scientific progress are the technical
> standards on which it is built and the open manner in which it is
> governed.  Yet, there are governments that seek to alter the fundamental
> way the Internet functions. Several governments recently called for new
> treaty http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/02/ensuring-open-internet
>
>
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