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<p>Personally, I am not worried at all about Veni Markovski being
the rep here, he has been around a long time and has a great
reputation. He was originally on CPSR. I also think it is
important that ICANN have representation here, to defend against
any bright ideas folks may come up with to make ICANN the
"one-stop-shopping" centre approach that some parties have
wanted/expected it to take. I do think we should invite Mr.
Markovski to brief us in the future on what is going on with this
group.</p>
<p>Kind regards, <br>
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<p>Stephanie Perrin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-01-13 8:40 AM, Ayden Férdeline
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<div>Hopefully they have joined to make the case for why the
technical community should not be involved in content
regulation. But I fear I'm giving them too much benefit of the
doubt. There should be transparency and community involvement in
these important discussions, but sadly I know there won't be,
and all we can probably hope for is a vague blog post after the
fact.<br>
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<div>Subject: Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN]
to a new high level group on fake news and online
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<div>Local Time: 13 January 2018 2:15 PM<br>
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class="gmail_default">Thank you Sam. We are championing
for ICANN not to become a content regulator and ICANN
staffer get appointed to EC initiative on fake news and
online disinformation. I really wonder why. Why should
ICANN be even involved with this? <br>
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<div>FYI:<br>
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<div> The European Commission (EC) has appointed 39
experts to a new High Level Group (HLEG) on fake news
and online disinformation.<br>
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<div> It comprises representatives of the civil society,
social media platforms, news media organisations,
journalists and academia.<br>
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<div> Professor dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning is
nominated to chair the Group.<br>
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<div> The ICANN person in the HLEG is Veni Markovski,
currently ICANN's Vice-President for UN engagement,
based in New York.<br>
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