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The original Netmundial was a unique Internet governance event that took place in 2014 and set out to map new avenues for global cooperation around the theme, uniting diverse stakeholders to discuss the future of IG in a broad manner. It was initially convened by the Brazilian government and ICANN as an answer to the Snowden revelations of global Internet espionage performed by various nations (primarily the USA), in part due to these two actors being directly affected by the implications of the revelations.
The Internet Needs Its Own Democratic Government
The Digital World Should Be Ruled by an Independent Coalition Beyond the Reach of Big Tech and Nation-States
World map depicting Flickr and Twitter locations in 2011. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both. Courtesy of Eric Fischer/Flickr (CC BY 2.0). by Joe Mathews |
May 11, 2021
Today’s methods for governing the internet do not constitute a coherent system, much less a democratic one.
Instead, internet governance is a contest for power between the most powerful tech companies, who put their shareholders first and want the internet to be a free-for-all, and national governments, which prioritize the political interests of their own officials.
Working towards a fairer internet governance
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Today s methods for governing the internet do not constitute a coherent system, much less a democratic one.
Instead, internet governance is a contest for power between the most powerful tech companies, who put their shareholders first and want the internet to be a free-for-all, and national governments, which prioritise the political interests of their own officials.
In this contest, both sides create the pretence of democracy. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, has created its own independent oversight board of global experts, though it s unelected, and chosen by Facebook. The European Union touts its tougher regulation of privacy and the Internet but those regulators are also unelected and impose their rules on people far from Europe.
How to govern the internet democratically
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oday’s methods for governing the internet do not constitute a coherent system, much less a democratic one.
Instead, internet governance is a contest for power between the most powerful tech companies, who put their shareholders first and want the internet to be a free-for-all, and national governments, which prioritize the political interests of their own officials.
In this contest, both sides create the pretense of democracy. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, has created its own “independent oversight” board of global experts, though it’s unelected, and chosen by Facebook. The European Union touts its tougher regulation of privacy and the internet but those regulators are also unelected and impose their rules on people far from Europe.