[governance] Question about inappropriate behavior was RE: [] US House Bill ...

[michael gurstein]

Hmmm… I would have thought that this was precisely the kind of statement that would precipitate debate rather than chill it.. but since I see that various distinguished members of US civil society have already, unbeknownst to me, made basically the same comments about their own government and the positions, perhaps rather hastily taken by some of their CS confreres, it seems that there may not be much debate arising from this after all; unless of course the USG chooses to react to my comments, which somehow I rather doubt :) 

 

So perhaps we can get on with trying to collaboratively work out appropriate civil society positions in an extremely complex and rapidly evolving global environment.

 

M

 

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 5:31 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: [governance] Question about inappropriate behavior was RE: [] US House Bill ...

 

michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote: 

.... Many in the rest of the world were astonished at the capacity of certain elements of US Civil Society and the Technical Community to offer uncritical support for what is so evidently self-serving hypocrisy of the form, ....

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I am wondering, for calibration sake, as I never approve of people being warned/removed from the list unless it is for genuine hate speech, or overt and continuous bullying.

Does this statement, which chills debate, calls people of a particular nation and those of another stakeholder group hypocrites for their beliefs and creates a hostile environment, the kind of thing the coordinators look for when deciding to start the netiquette warning process?

Again I am not suggesting any such thing, just trying to understand the criteria for transparencies sake.

Thanks.



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avri

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