[bestbits] Letter to Pres. Rousseff, was, Re: [governance] Dilma Rousseff's speech at UN

[McTim]

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Brazil statement is I think, an excellent including the references in
> the context of governance to MLism rather than to MSism given the ambiguity
> and bad faith which can be ascribed to many of the particular uses (and
> users) of the latter terminology/methodology.
>
> The multilateral system has earned its spurs if nothing else through the
> UNDHR and the work of such agencies as the WHO and UNICEF and in their times
> the UNDP and UNESCO.
>
> The quite evidently subverted MSism of the Internet may by my reckoning at
> this moment be something of a poisoned challice (if nothing else through the
> potentially questionable motives (and ideologies) of its most ardent
> governmental and other backers) and we await its redemption through the
> (possible) mounting of a suitable response post-Snowden.

MSism needs no "redemption".  Just because one supporter of it got
caught doing dodgy things does not somehow tar the entire structure of
Internet policy making that has been built over decades.

I for one would object quite strongly to the Caucus supporting MLism
over MSism.  I think it was a fine speech but if we are going to write
a letter of support, we should note that we have always supported
MSism.

If you want a global treaty to stop governments from spying on
everything we do online, I think it foolish to leave it in the hands
of governments only!

-- 
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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