[governance] MM blog post on what is really threatening Internet Freedom

[Riaz K Tayob]

On 2013/04/30 10:32 PM, McTim wrote:
> Get over the stuff about ‘Googledom’ and ‘Facebookistan.’ It’s a cute
> metaphor but there is really no comparison between sovereigns and
> these businesses.
This is an a priorism, and like Miltons allusions that private is better 
than public, seems plausible only if one accepts certain premises. From 
my Third World perspective the worst is when the private sector and the 
state get together to pursue their interests (as Larry Summers once 
said, for every dollar given to the World Bank by the US, US 
corporations generate a reasonable multiple back for themselves - of 
course we end up stuck with the white elephants and conditioning debt). 
The relationship between many US multinationals is rather intimate some 
might say incestuous. From this vantage, the difference is merely one of 
degree rather than kind. Just think of Bush and the private telcos 
granted RETROSPECTIVE immunity. Retrospectivity, like torture, is one of 
those grundnorms of law, so unstated, but pivotal to law...

That said, the Leviathan (not in it presumptively bad attenuation) needs 
to be guarded against. Even more so, State and Corporate alliances.

Riaz


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