[governance] Blogpost: The Open (Internet) Society and Its Enemies: Can Multistakeholderism Survive "Information Dominance"?

[JFC Morfin]

At 14:48 18/10/2013, michael gurstein wrote:
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>Since I will only be able to participate in a few sessions of BB because of
>other commitments I've done up a blogpost with some of my thoughts/concerns
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>http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-open-internet-society-and-its-e
>nemies-can-multistakeholderism-survive-information-dominance/
>http://tinyurl.com/ke9ulqc

I am glad the we eventually talk about the real field rather than 
legal dreams. I felt alone at being the only one at counterwar!

MSism is to polycracy what voting is to democracy. Information 
dominance is a polycratic phenomenon comparable to democractic 
lobbying. I suppose the world can roughly handle it as such a 
dominance is an unreachable and technically falsifiable objective 
(you lose a lot of credibility and therefore influence on your allies 
if you are shown wrong on one point, i.e. that your dominance is 
uncertain). What is more worrying at this layer ignorance, corruption 
and astroturfing on your own side.

Please also note that information dominance is by brute force on data.

Intellition, i.e. intelligent dot connecting between information 
(soft force on connected data) is far more worrying. It may build 
intellectually algorithmed "unrreals". This would then become 
kafkaesque: the data could then become the structural support of 
checked consistant "truth" of errors and misjudgments. This is what 
one may fear from "algorithmic govenances".

One may prevent information dominance through security. One cannot 
prevent intellition dominance (you cannot block the thinking of 
someone or/and impeach him from being intelligent). Therefore, you 
can only oppose external intellition dominance by disinformation 
jamming, architectural precaution and proportional deterrance.

jfc 


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