[governance] more on Brazil-US stand off

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It may not be a case of ghostwriting as much as similar, not very realistic, political worldviews.  The Hindu is a over century old, strongly left leaning publication that is also famous, under its past editor, for articles like this one (reprinted verbatim from Xinhua).  

http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022755511900.htm

"Tibet on road of rapid uplift: N.Ram"

To be very fair, N Ram is the same man that broke the Bofors howitzer scam (thanks to documents leaked by a whistleblower Sten Lindstrom) - massive amounts of bribery in the procurement of a new 155 mm howitzer for the Indian army (it still did end up getting procured and is a lovely, hard working piece of ordnance, one of the mainstays of India's artillery, but I digress).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_scandal

I buy The Hindu because it is as local to south india as you can get - but generally use it only as a source of news about local events, and sports, and highbrow articles on literature, culture, the history of the city (all of which it does rather well).  

The only thing I don't touch with a bargepole is any story at all they run on politics, or internet governance (where they seem to be about the only publication I can see that shares ideas with a very vocal splinter goup / rump of this caucus, and rather to the left of the guardian in its sympathies).  Even with its new editor after Ram retired.

--srs (iPad)

> On 01-Oct-2013, at 18:34, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
>> Incidentally, the title includes multilateral, a word that has already
>> produced loads of heated debates in connection with multistakeholder. In
>> this context the choice seems intentional.
> 
> Probably...many of the articles in the Hindu that have been posted in
> the last year or so use rhetoric similar to that we have seen on this
> list.
> 
> Perhaps, in the interests of transparency, PJS can tell us if he is
> ghostwriting or acting as a source for the Hindu?
> 
> Predictably, some in CS have already seen the dangers of multilateralism:
> 
> http://www.ifex.org/international/2013/09/25/online_surveillance/
> 
> "Privacy International and Bytes for All reject this call for more
> regulation of the internet, which should remain free, independent and
> open for all to use. The statement is a transparent attempt by these
> countries to limit the flow and exchange of information, thus putting
> at risk other rights, including the right to privacy and freedom of
> expression. "
> 
> 
>> 
>> Another expression is governance of the world wide web (WWW). While WWW is
>> as fuzzy as internet, one may wonder if there is any specific intention in
>> this less common expression.
> 
> 
> perhaps.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 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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