<div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Gonzalo Camarillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com" target="_blank">Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">--- Proposal ---<br>
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<br>The Internet is for everyone.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this is the main part that needs an update. My sense is that this can be seen as paternalistic. Our experience is that this is considered by those - who are not openly connected - as something that we wish to force down their throats... who are we to tell people (communities, pristine cultures, religious groups, even the Chinese nation), that the (open) Internet is for them (which is and may be counter to what their leaders say)? <br></div><div><br></div><div>For example there are very religious people (and cults and communities and "indigenous people") who feel that there are better proprietary means to communicate and they already have access to their own world of information and all other information/communications are questionable, potentially harmful and needing vetting. </div><div><br></div><div>I do not have a best counter proposal although I suggest changing "for" to "open to" may be better.. ie the Internet is open to everyone</div><div> </div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Alan Levin</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">----------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chairman ISOC-ZA</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">+27 21 4882820 (ddi)</span><br></div></div></div>
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