[governance] Rupert Murdoch Says Businesses Should Have A Larger Say in Public Policy

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Fri Jul 18 06:17:20 EDT 2014


There are government reps and civil society groups that are just as 'good' 
ad Mr murdochs people are. They still do get a say in msm. So despite 
everything, it will survive.


On 18 July 2014 3:45:01 pm Jefsey <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:

> At 11:32 18/07/2014, Paul Wilson wrote:
> >God help the multistakeholder process if News Corp gets involved.
>
> Paul,
>
> are you meaning that News Corps are not (equal) stakeholders in the
> Information Society? Why would they not be on an equal footing with
> states and other stakeholders? What is worrying is an MS process
> where there are undefined "indirect" stakeholders and where
> independent users are not on an equal footing with everyone else.
>
> He does not plead for News Corp to have a larger say than ICANN, RIR,
> manufacturer, edge provider, ISP, etc. and  other kind of
> corporations. But that the role permitted to the News Corps, and
> Corps in general, should be larger than what it is currently
> permitted in order to be in accordance to their effective weight in
> the human/computer/corporation society of today.
>
> I hope you do not say the same about independent users (IUsers)?
>
> Take care.
> jfc
>
>
>
>



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