[Chapter-delegates] Unfortunately, the Internet Impact Toolkit is unsound

[Mike Godwin]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 9 of 13 of our Board are from the U.S., as are many of our senior staff.
> To be effective, we should clearly take positions that benefit Internet
> users around the world.  We must be very careful not to take positions that
> protect U.S. giant companies.
>

FWIW, although I'm from the U.S. I don't consider myself to be a defender
of "U.S. giant companies." Most of my writings over the last several years
have articulated criticisms of those companies, whose flaws I know best.
(You'll find very little from me that's critical of, say, Alibaba or
Tencent, two companies I've hardly studied at all. For the record, I favor
small companies that as market entrants (take Zoom, for example) manage to
compete strongly against the incumbents--because it's not just great for
them but also good for the incumbents when there's competition.)

Mike
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