Important blog post about the ICANN Accountability CCWG

[Milton L Mueller]

I totally reject that presumption.

All behavior is private. Only individuals or small coordinated groups act and behave. The public interest cannot be much different from an aggregation of a lot of people’s private interests. The idea that we are all devils individually but collectively become angels is a nonsense that I thought had died with various forms of totalitarianism.

Again I think it is much better to talk about these problems in the context of rights. If a specific private actor does something that violates one or more peoples rights then there is a regulatory problem.

From: Carlos Raúl G. [mailto:crg at isoc-cr.org]

All regulatory statutes command to pursue the "public interest", because they presume that private behavior, unregulated, will diverge from the public interest.

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