[governance] Congratulations Charles Mok from the IGC! #Hong Kong Elections

Sun Sep 16 12:46:11 EDT 2012

Dear friends,

Thank you for your kind messages!!  Sorry for my late reply here....I am
still catching up with the messages I have received!  But every message is
important and so kind to me, and such encouragement!

Thank you again!
Charles

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Kabani <kabani.asif at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulation, - Charles Mok
>
> From
> Asif Kabani
>
>
> On 10 September 2012 14:16, Sonigitu Ekpe <
> sonigituekpe at crossriverstate.gov.ng> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The cap fits  Charles Mok, hence the overwhelming victory.
>> Congrats Charles.
>>
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>> Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please join me in warmly congratulating Charles Mok who has just won a
>> seat of the Information Technology Functional Constituency for the Hong
>> Kong Legislative Council with 2, 828 votes, against Samson Tam his only
>> opponent (2063) votes.
>>
>> I am super glad that Hong Kong has a dynamic, intelligent, hard working
>> advocate as one of its Legislative Councillor.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mok
>>
>> With every best wish Charles!
>>
>> Sala
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Charles Mok (gmail) <
>> charlespmok at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Similar happened in HK yesterday and about 10 social activists including
>> one opposition legislator had their fb accounts suspended for a few hours.
>>  I contacted fb public policy people and around the same time their
>> accounts gradually came back unblocked.  fb has not provided clear
>> explanation of the reasons.
>>
>> English report: (paid content)
>>
>> http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=445f1383709a7310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News
>>
>> Widely reported in Chinese newspapers also.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:
>> Oksana,
>>
>> Why/on whose orders/recommendation were they blocked?
>>
>> M
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
>> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Oksana
>> Prykhodko
>> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:24 PM
>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; William Drake
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in
>> Brazil
>>
>>
>> Hi, all
>>
>> Today Facebook blocked accounts of nearly 10 Ukrainian independent
>> journalists. But, after active campaign in social media and addresses to
>> Facebook CEO, these accounts were unblocked.
>>
>> May be it is time to think about ombudsmen for social media - as a
>> mediator
>> between users and CEO?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Oksana
>>
>> 2012/6/1 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>:
>> > Hi Marilia
>> >
>> >
>> > On May 31, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
>> >
>> > I am totally in favor of achieving "harmony" on this and other topics.
>> > But this is a crossborder issue that involves private forces and
>> > public interest. Tell me the place where we can globally tackle this
>> > issue, all together, in a multistakeholder fashion and I will be the
>> > first to attend and try to contribute so that “harmony” can come
>> > about. But first we probably need to fight for such a space to exist.
>> >
>> >
>> > I guess I'm with Roland and others who'd note that the Internet is not
>> > the web and the web is not FB, so while FB's TOR are overly paranoid
>> > and restrictive, there are other places to post stuff, and it's at
>> > least debatable whether this rises to the level of being global
>> > Internet governance.  But I have different questions.  In
>> > conversations in Geneva and here (and the IT4C letter did the same),
>> > you've cited FB policies as evidence there's an urgent need for
>> > enhanced cooperation in the form of a platform under the UN.   But why
>> > not organize an online campaign---per ACTA SOPA PIPA—of fellow FB
>> > users to put pressure on FB directly (and for that matter, use the IGF
>> > in parallel to stoke the debate), rather than creating a centralized
>> > uber mechanism responsible for this and all else?
>> >  Why do you think a WG/CIRP/whatever that would be populated inter alia
>> by
>> > Geneva reps of the very governments that make FB paranoid in the first
>> place
>> > would be more likely to agree that nudity is ok and FB should allow it
>> > without fear of government reprisals?
>> >
>> > There are many CS and other actors who share your concerns about
>> > individual issues---FoE IPR privacy surveillance etc---and the meta
>> > issue of concentrated power but just have trouble seeing a one-stop
>> > shop in the UN as the right solution.  Since the case for why it would
>> > be really hasn't been made in any detail, isn't there a risk that
>> > insisting it's the only option left-minded people may consider (and in
>> > some tellings, that any nonbelievers are morally suspect, don't care
>> > about developing countries, etc) just limits coalition building?  Can
>> > we agree that at the Baku pre-event and beyond, it'd be useful to work
>> > through the relative merits of different institutional designs?
>> > Personally, I've always favored WGs in the IGF &
>> > strengthening/connecting advocacy coalitions working in different
>> > spaces (although as the APC network of networks effort showed, that's
>> > difficult), but there are other options, a new UN body being just one.
>> > So let's compare and contrast?
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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