Jay,
You wrote:
> As many issues in this debate are, I suspect that
> at least some of our differences are cultural in
> nature.
>
> While you might be comfortable with a small cabal
> of Government and Corporate appointees making global
> decisions for the entire, world-wide Internet, most
> Americans will not be.
>
I never said that I am comfortable with it, I just said that it takes time
to change.
I agree that there may be cultural differences, but I disagree this being
one of these. Maybe because that, among all people on the Earth, Italians
are among the most suspicious about Governments. Or maybe because our
Constitution (sorry to counterdict Esther) also states that power resides to
the people (literal translation sounds like: "The soverainity belongs to the
people, who exerces it in the forms and within the limits of this
Constitution").
So, it's not a cultural difference, it is a practical (and pragmatical)
approach that makes me think that, failure to have the Net governed by a
direct democracy involving at least a good part of all users worldwide, I
much prefer to have involvment of governments (for instance, but also
corporations, user associations, ... I would say "institutional" actors)
than giving the whole thing to a few hundred individuals on this or another
E-mail list.
Regards
Roberto
