[governance] Response to Jeremy's insinuations (was Re: Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony...)

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 6/03/2015 2:12 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Jeremy Malcolm of EFF [1], tweeting as @qirtaiba, has made the
> following claim on twitter in the context of the UNESCO Connecting the
> Dots conference [2] in Paris:
>
>     Pondering whether to object to JNC’s addition of “democratic”
>     before multi-stakeholder which is code for maintaining primacy of
>     governments 
>
> More recently he has also repeated essentially the same claim in a
> blogpost [3].

And Anriette who was in the drafting committee subsequently verified
that the way in which I claimed that wording would be interpreted at the
UN was, indeed, the way the wording was being interpreted.

> However, what Jeremy claims is the view of the Just Net Coalition (JNC)
> [4] on “democratic multi-stakeholderism” is not in any way an actual
> position of JNC.

So let me get this straight: you are happy to accept global
multi-stakeholder governance where there is consensus (including of
governments), but where there isn't, then national parliaments get to
decide.  Well, I'm glad we cleared that up, then.

> [In case someone might be wondering whether Jeremy might simply have
> forgotten about my concrete proposal for making Internet governance
> inclusive as well as democratic: I don’t think so, because Jeremy’s
> other recent blogpost [7] is so full of factually false assertions in
> relation to JNC and some of the most active people in JNC (including
> myself) that explaining it all as an honest mistake is in my view
> clearly no longer possible. A point-by-point response to that older
> blogpost is here. [8]]

I didn't bother responding to that earlier "rebuttal" before because it
addresses precisely none of my core points.  There are also no factually
false assertions that I'm aware of.  I didn't reveal my source for the
information about the funder who asked why certain people weren't
invited to your meeting; this is also the same source that told me you
had received money from ThoughtWorks.  If that source was wrong then,
sorry.  I do however, at least, know for certain of individuals (not me)
who were specifically excluded from attending because of their views. 
About my visa, because I was an Australian citizen but living in
Malaysia, it took four weeks to obtain an Indian visa since they had to
send it to Canberra.  But this is really trivial stuff, and again, not
really worth responding to.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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