[governance] A Response re. Just Net Coalition and Internet Social Forum

[parminder]

On Sunday 03 May 2015 03:36 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Ralf Bendrath
> <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:
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>     (But then it should also mention that NetMundial achieved what the IGF
>     (I guess intentionally) never achieved: An adopted multi-stakeholder
>     document.
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> Adopted by whom ?  An urban legend fabricated by ICANN.

Yes, the strong writes history, and facts matter little.... A small set
of countries actually supported the document, most just kept  quiet and
played along in diplomatic nicety, knowing that it was just an ordinary
conference document. Majority of the civil society present at the venue
protested and opposed the doc immediately when it was presented in the
final session - while we may not even begin to talk of the civil society
not present.... But then, the powerful have it! The powerful have it!
The motion is passed.

Net Mundial process was begun with the best intentions by the
Brazilians, but was always meant to be hijacked by ICANN fronting for
the US (whose plan it originally was to stop Dlima from going to the UN
as she had promised) and was indeed hijacked. Finally, it was a document
by, for and of the US led multistakeholderist group, with global
business and the ICANN invested technical community in the tow, and with
support from a fairly good section of IG civil society (the reasons for
which are complex and I will not go into here). So basically one -
'equal-footing multistakeholderist'  - section of the hotly contested IG
space adopted a document at the NetMundial meeting and have since been
unilaterally declaring that to be the most important - even foundational
- document for global IG. This is plain and simple use of ample
resources at the command of the powerful to, as Louis rights says,
fabricate a legend, and write a fabricated account of history.

parminder



>
> Louis.
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>     Best, Ralf
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