Re: Internet Governance & "Producers' Cooperatives"

[Bob Allisat <bob@wtv.net>]

Einar wrote:
>By the way, it is an interesting exercise for those who want to create
>a new Internet Government, complete with constitution and preisdent
>and supreme court, to also consider how they would do the same for the
>econonomy!
>
>So, this is the parallel between Internets and Economies.  Neither of
>them will fare well under centralized control of any Centralized
>Governance, whether it is an Internet Governance or ITU Governance, or
>UN Governance, or Dictator Governance, or "democratic Governance.
>
>Both the Internet and the Economy, which are both "edge Controlled"
>rather then "centrally controlled", function best when they are
>coordinated with confederations of edge located power centers.
>
>Now, if you beleive that the Internet now needs its own centralized
>Government, I suggest that you should also be lobbying for a new
>Central Ecomomy Government.

 The economy of the US or Canada or
 any other so-called developed nation
 are highly regulated. Complex arrays
 of tax, trade, employment, work-place
 safety and environmental laws, bylaws
 and regulations are applied to every
 business every working day. We do not
 live in a world of lawless commerce and
 those that do suffer often horrible
 consequences. Our economies are *not*
 the wild west free for all many imagine
 them to be. Nor are they the police
 states some business people claim in
 attempts to bypass legal process and
 public oversight and direction.

 There are notable instances where the
 rules we enforce in our economy suceed.
 There are dismal circumstances where they
 fails and often desparately so. However
 order there is. And we cannot expect that
 Internet commerce and enterprise will
 go entirely to self-regulation. We do
 not tolerate such behavious in real time.
 Don't expect "We the people" to accept
 such lawlessness in Virtual time.

 It is critical governing structures similar
 to those "in the world" be created to
 oversee and protect us all "in the ethers".
 No one should dismiss our interests simply
 because one environment is physical and
 the other is energic. The vital role of
 democratic governing bodies in the protection
 of the rights, freedoms and liberties of
 the average citizen extends above all
 marketplaces and in all circumstances.

 We the people have demonstrated again and
 again that we will not give up our future
 or the protection of interests to anyone.
 Be forewarned that we will not give them
 up to technocrats or industry lobbies or
 experts anymore than we gave them up to
 dictators, inside traders or environmental
 butchers. Government - flawed and imperfect -
 must be preserved and even extened into
 the virtual world. It is often our only
 security confronted, as we often are, by
 so many warring, powerful and dangerous
 private institutions. On to Internet
 Government...


 Mr.
 This is an invalid argument.

 Bob Allisat
 Director, World TeleVirtual Network
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