[governance] Google's Fight the ITU/WCIT website

[Norbert Bollow]

Parminder wrote:

> >>2) Have recently entered into exclusive arrangements with telecos 
> >>to provide Gmail, Google + and Google Search for free in some 
> >>developing countries (Philippines) , and as a special low cost 
> >>package exclusively of a few Internet services (and not the full, 
> >>public Internet) in others (India), which makes a mockery of an 
> >>open and net neutral Internet.

Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> I fail to see how google selling email, collaboration etc services to
> telcos has anything to do with the free and open internet here.

You may need to read up on the very significant body of literature that
exists about the effects of this kind of partnerships.

> And as for asking whether parminder is crazy .. well, I will confess
> that I don't quite have to ask myself that question at all.

Please let's refrain from any kind of ridicule and ad hominem attacks.

Having a constructive discussion between people with very different
viewpoints is challenging enough already in the absence of directing
unpleasant, ridiculing words at anyone. Such ridicule is particularly
problematic when it is used to attack someone who has a viewpoint that
a large number of other participants find difficult to understand.

Greetings,
Norbert

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