[governance] Debunking eight myths about multi-stakeholderism

[Jefsey]

Karl,
digital omnistakeholderism means that my machine is my ballot paper 
in the global voting emergence where ICANN is just another political 
lobby and sadly IETF has opted for the NTIA/FCC as its eventual leader.
jfc


At 20:56 03/05/2015, Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>On 4/29/15 10:23 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
>>Ok, let's try this then:
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>>Is EFF a stakeholder?
>No.   No thing that exists merely as an abstraction of law or 
>accounting ought to be given power in the making of decisions.
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>EFF employs many human people who would all be proper holders of a 
>franchise to participate in the making of whatever decision is to be 
>made.  Each of whom would be free to follow the EFF position or not.
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>EFF as an organization would, of course, be able to provide its 
>expertise - as would any other organization from the NRA to the ITU 
>to Boeing to Joe's Bar and Grill - but it would merely be proffered 
>advice and would have no weight in the making of decisions beyond 
>its power to persuade those (individual humans) or a human who has 
>been designated by those people to act on their behalf, in other 
>words a designated representative.
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>I am amused by how easy it is to corrupt stakeholder systems.  Under 
>ICANN's rubric I have many hats in which I am a "stakeholder" and 
>get to put my replicated thumb multiple times onto the scale of 
>decision.  I am, of course, a user of the internet, I own and 
>control several for-profit corporate entities, I participate in 
>several non-profit organizations, I hold domain names and IP 
>addresses from before the era of ICANN and the RIRs, I've authored 
>full internet standards, I own several trademarks and many 
>copyrights and even some patents, I'm a citizen of more than one 
>country, and I am also an attorney (both California and US Federal).
>
>So under a system of stakeholders I get more places to stand and try 
>to project my influence than the average internet user.   That, of 
>course, doesn't mean that I get my way - I tend to espouse rather 
>liberal human-over-corporation values - which clearly face huge 
>mountains of opposition.  But there are others who are far more 
>capable and manipulative than I am, and have far more resources, 
>money, and time.
>Consider the trademark protection lobby - they are quite well 
>funded, well focused, and under the ICANN system they get, and use, 
>multiple "stakeholder" seats (as intellectual property interests, as 
>business interests, via their exaggerated influence in governments, 
>and via the "at large").
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>When one recognizes mental abstractions - such as the collection 
>known as EFF or the collection known as Verizon - to have the piece 
>of the power to make decisions then that reduces the power of 
>humans.  It's a zero-sum game - the more we give to legal fictions, 
>such as corporations or trade groups, then the less there is for 
>individual people.
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>I am reminded of some of the mud that was thrown at the ICANN 
>elections in year 2000: that some countries and large corporations 
>were trying to influence their employees to vote in certain ways, 
>and that as a consequence it was asserted that those elections were 
>tainted.  Yet under the stakeholder system those same countries and 
>corporations would get actual power, actual votes - why care about 
>the opinions of mere people when the CEO can decide what is good for them?
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>             --karl--
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