[governance] Bloomberg - The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz

[parminder]

On Sunday 20 January 2013 03:00 PM, Adam Peake wrote:
> <snip>
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> I don't recall support the notion of US Exceptionalism from anyone on 
> this list.

No one will profess that term for oneself. However, clearly it is US 
Exceptionalism being practised when:

1. anyone agrees or shows strong sympathy with the view that US has (not 
just 'had') a 'historic role' in the evolution of the Internet (and 
perhaps in protection of its 'basic principles', whatever it may mean) 
and /therefore/ some degree of continued pre-eminence of the US 
government in some key IG arrangements, including of the CIRs, is fine/ 
acceptable...

2. anyone is fine with US laws/ courts/ executive/ statutory authorities 
(FCC, FTC etc) determine much of how the Internet's architecture 
develops, whether through US law/ jurisdiction’s application on the 
ICANN, or on most of the monopoly global Internet mega-corporates....

In fact, if the IGC can agree that such US exceptionalism is /wrong and 
unacceptable/, and sincerely begins to make political proposals to come 
out of it, we would have reconciled a lot of political differences among 
the members of IGC, and also made a great contribution to the area of 
global governance of the Internet.

parminder

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> Adam
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> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:Guru at itforchange.net>> wrote:
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>     On 01/20/2013 01:16 AM, John Curran wrote:
>>     On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:riaz.tayob at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     [The Panglossian world of US Exceptionalism.... of course these
>>>     matters are discussed and debated, but dare to do anything about
>>>     it and then those will be put in their place, or no?]
>>>
>>>     The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
>>>     By Stephen L. Carter
>>>     <http://www.bloomberg.com/view/bios/stephen-carter/> Jan 18,
>>>     2013 1:30 AM GMT+0200
>>>     ...
>>
>>     Riaz -
>>     A very good question; I personally don't subscribe to a view of
>>     US Exceptionalism
>>     (that's likely because I've travelled a bit and can more readily
>>     make comparisons),
>>
>     John,
>
>     Do you mean you do not think US is exceptional / it is wrong to
>     believe that the US is exceptional
>     or
>     Do you mean that there is no belief prevalent about US exceptionalism
>
>     Can you elaborate on this remark
>
>     thanks,
>     Guru
>
>     <snip>
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