[governance] Is multistakeholder governance democratic? (was Re: JNC perspective...)

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote, addressing me:

> As you know full well, none of those
> whom you are addressing accept for a moment that their ideal of
> multi-stakeholder Internet governance is undemocratic, as JNC insists
> it is.
> 
> Neither are they naïve babes in the wood who haven't fully thought
> through their positions, over in some cases a decade or longer.

In the meantime, the world has been changing quite significantly, for
example with private communication now being to a very large extent
Internet-intermediated and known to be subject to mass surveillance
both by governmental agencies such as NSA (for purposes of the
perceived national interest) and by private companies (for purposes of
maximizing advertising related profits).

How would a realistically possible pathway to ending such mass
surveillance look like in the context of such a fully thought through
ideal of multi-stakeholder Internet governance?

Certainly ending such practices which are both unpopular and in
violation of a human right must be possible if the relevant governance 
system is indeed democratic!

Greetings,
Norbert
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