[Chapter-delegates] [European-chapters] ISOC 2022 Action Plan

[Richard Hill]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your reply.

Will the membership (and in particular the Chapters) be consulted prior to
ISOC's engaging in US courts? And what sort of budget is foreseen for that
(I understand that legal fees can be rather high in the US)?

Best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Andrew Sullivan' [mailto:sullivan at isoc.org]
> Sent: Friday, 10 December 2021 18:26
> To: Richard Hill
> Cc: 'ISOC Chapters'; 'European Chapters'
> Subject: Re: [European-chapters] [Chapter-delegates] ISOC 2022 Action
> Plan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 05:26:57PM +0100, Richard Hill wrote:
> >> number of decisions about how regulations will work in the US.  The
> US
> >> is, last I checked, still pretty influential in the way the Internet
> >> develops,
> >
> >That's a pretty US-centric view. As far as I can tell, European
> decisions
> >such as the GDPR and the so-called right-to-be-forgotten have had more
> of
> an
> >effect in the way the Internet develops than any recent US decision.
> >
> >Not to mention that national decisions (e.g. the great Chinese
> firewall)
> >typically have more local effects outside the US than do US decisions.
> 
> I don't think there's any inconsistency with your claims.  I did not
> say,
> "The US is the most influential in the way the Internet develops."  I
> merely said that it's pretty influential, and so it's one of the
> jurisdictions where we think some work is appropriate.
> 
> None of that is to minimize the importance of other countries.  Perhaps
> the implication is that, if the Internet Society cannot do something in
> every country it should do it in none of them.  But if that is the rule,
> then I think we can fold our tent, for there will be nothing truly
> meaningful we can do everywhere.  I am confident, at least, that we
> could
> not do any of what we do in North Korea, just to pick an obvious
> example.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> A
> 
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> Andrew Sullivan
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