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

Fri Jul 18 09:20:44 EDT 2014

I wonder where this perception of Rupert Murdoch comes from. Tomorrow Never
Dies, perhaps? Interestingly it was the first movie made after Broccoli's
death.

Business has a right to speak out on public policy matters, even on issues
> not directly related to their area of operation.
> Business is just as entitled to express its opinion as unions are.
> Murdoch said business had a role to play in shaping public policy in a
> democracy.
> If we feel we have a contribution to make to the debate we should do so.
> Certainly my newspapers do so every day and we far from regularly win the
> argument.
> It's very important that, if we live in a democracy, with real
> entrepreneurship, you've got to have a world of ideas to debate.
> Businesses should be involved in shaping public policy
> Governments need to loosen constraints on business.

What is wrong with all this?  This is a position by a powerful businessman
and it is good for the multi-stakeholder model. I view this as a very
positive development and I feel that Rupert Murdoch could pursue this
further and bring together like minded businessmen from every where to
share these views.

(About Governments taking a back seat, I am not sure if he meant government
out of governance. He could not possibly have meant that.)

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

<https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:51 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:

>
> On Friday 18 July 2014 04:11 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
>
>> Other Murdoch companies are already involved with internet governance,
>>  with 21st Century Fox a prominent member of ICC Basis,and active pursuing
>> their interests (and perhaps disproportionately) at NetMundial.
>>
>
> Well of course.... I still cannot get over the horror of seeing the reps
> of Disney and Cisco walk over at the Net Mundial to the outcome document
> drafting group and reading out text from their small screens (yes, I know
> they were supposed to be trying to tell what an earlier version of the text
> looked like was) - while some civil society people standing by who butted
> in some comments were immediately sshhh-ed...
>
> And right now at an ISOC group working on IG issues, the Disney rep is
> trying to tell everyone that rather than the well established policy term
> of 'local content' it is far better to use 'relevant content'. No prizes
> for guessing why.  ... There was a time when speaking on an issue in this
> manner in a policy forum when there was such a keen conflict of interest
> involved was a clear no no. But then that was before the days of
> multistakeholderism.
>
> Also right now the framing document for the main session on net neutrality
> (which has been successfully resisted for so long by an MS MAG) is
> thoroughly colored with track changes put in by AT and T and Verizons of
> this world....
>
> Whom are we really fooling here .....
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Paul Wilson
>> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 8:31 PM
>> To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; Pranesh Prakash ; Jefsey
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Rupert Murdoch Says Businesses Should Have A
>> Larger Say in Public Policy
>>
>> I need to watch my spontaneous comments, especially the cheeky ones.
>>
>> But I was referring to the fact that, arguably, News Corp has wielded a
>> disproportional influence over many things, including election results.
>> Australia is possibly their last bastion, judging by our recent results;
>> but of course, the voters are always free to do what they feel is right.
>>  :-)
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18 Jul 2014, at 8:17 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  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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