[governance] Facebook spent $4 million to lobby U.S. lawmakers in 2012

[McTim]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:

> so it is disappointing (though not surprising) that we get responses on the
> list about 'US eminent role/ US exceptionalism' being good or inevitable.

on the contrary, no one on this list has said any such thing, rather
some of us have pointed out the reality of the situation and the
unlikelyhood of it changing.  I spoke to a senior US IG person some
years back who "was there" back in the Green/White paper days, who
told me that "the US never intended to give it up", meaning the root.


 To
> quote that great American, Abraham Lincoln "No man is good enough to govern
> another man without that other man’s consent", something many Americans on
> this list and other nationals favoring US eminence in IG, may want to ponder
> about.

The thing that I find most frustrating about this is that y'all have
forgotten (or never knew) that the nation state is NOT supposed to be
the agent of IG, the enduser is supposed to be in that role.  Too many
of us want nations states in charge IMHO.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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