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<div>Yesterday's <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/">IGF</a> sessions brought accusations that the private sector is blocking civil society's efforts to influence Internet Governance. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">"the private sector has no interest in furthering public values that true multi-stakeholderism would promote, ahead of
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">They are damning the same private sector motivations that produced the most democratizing technologies the world has ever known: Internet search, email, social network services, e-commerce platforms,
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Here's a post I did on that debate. Gives you a sense for politics in the multi-stakeholder model.</span></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/multi_stakeholder_debate_at_the_igf_lessons_from_a_safari">http://www.circleid.com/posts/multi_stakeholder_debate_at_the_igf_lessons_from_a_safari</a>/ </div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
<div>Executive Director</div>
<div>NetChoice</div>
<div><a href="http://www.NetChoice.org">http://www.NetChoice.org</a> and <a href="http://blog.netchoice.org">
http://blog.netchoice.org</a> </div>
<div>+1.202.420.7482 </div>
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