Re: [ilugd] Defending the threat to the public-ness and the egalitarian nature of the Internet

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 28 Nov 2008, vinay sreenivasa wrote: Therefore, six civil society organisations in India have proposed an open letter to the UN Internet Governance Forum which meets for its third annual meeting between 3rd and 6th December in Hyderabad. The letter exhorts urgent global action to

[ilugd] Defending the threat to the public-ness and the egalitarian nature of the Internet

2008-11-28 Thread vinay sreenivasa
Hi All, Apologies for cross-posting. Most of us tend to take the commons and the public nature of the Internet for granted. However, increasing corporatisation and control of the Internet are strongly threatening these fundamental characteristics of the Internet as we know it. Therefore, six