[governance] Ex-White House Official Joins Group Fighting "Excessive" Online Privacy Laws

[parminder]

On Monday 01 April 2013 11:26 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/daniel-weitzner-internet-privacy
> -coalition
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> Regulatory capture in action?
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> And what better way to ensure regulatory capture at the global level than to
> ensure that there are no global regulatory frameworks or mechanisms that
> will ultimately need to be captured?

"Coalition for Privacy and Free Trade " is exactly the kind of issue 
based network that are getting formed. (Bertrand, please note.) And we 
know what they are upto. Soon there will be others, that is the trend, 
like perhaps one led by Shell on green economy, and Nike on labour 
friendliness.... No, this is not acceptable, We are better off with 
evolving old fashioned democratic systems from within, with a deepening 
democracy focus.... We have seen movements, especially in Europe, of a 
new kind of democratic politics bypassing the existing political party 
captures - that is where I would put my hopes instead of these dangerous 
neolib trends. I appeal to the civil society to recognise the dangers 
that we are headed towards in all this mushy talk of "equality of all 
stakeholders in decision making" (read, corporate led 'governance' 
systems), and issue based networks as the prime next gen governance 
paradigm...

parminder


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