[governance] "US Exceptionalism" (was Re: Bloomberg - The Overzealous Prosecution...)

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Kerry Brown <kerry at kdbsystems.com> wrote:

> > > - the view that all national governments should have same kind of roles
> > >   or not in Internet governance and global information society
> > >   governance in general.
> > >
> > > "acceptance of US exceptionalism in information society governance"
> > > - the view that it is acceptable for the US government to have some
> > >   special role(s) or power(s) in Internet governance and global
> > >   information society governance in general.
> > >
>
> For me it is not US exceptionalism. It is something more nuanced. As a
> Canadian I would like to see less control by the US. As a citizen of, for
> lack of a better term, a "western democracy" I would not like to see what I
> think of as "repressive regimes" get more control. It is a dichotomy I am
> unable to resolve in my own mind which makes it very hard to debate
> usefully. I think many people have the same internal struggle.
>
> Kerry Brown
>

There is an interesting article from 2005 that illustrates this, see:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/if_its_about_to_break_fix_it/

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