{"id":624,"date":"2013-01-09T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=624"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:26:01","slug":"the-return-of-the-clinton-paradox-internet-governance-and-the-sticky-wcit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Clinton Paradox- Internet Governance and the &#8216;sticky WCIT&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/freespeechdebate.com\/en\/discuss\/a-sticky-wcit-and-the-battle-for-control-of-the-internet\/\">this post for Free Speech Debate<\/a> on what I could glean was the impact of the ITU&#8217;s World Conference on International Telecommunications, held in December in Dubai. I argue that while the media presented the &#8216;breakdown&#8217; of the talks as a fracture between Western democracies (notably the US) who support free speech and Eastern states who wish to control communications, experienced observers saw a set of worries emerge about the long-term consequences of having the US manage internet governance &#8211; including the return of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/mediapolicyproject\/2011\/11\/02\/freedom-abroad-repression-at-home-the-clinton-now-cameron-paradox\/\">Clinton paradox<\/a> where internet freedom is guaranteed in one sphere while reduced in another.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/freespeechdebate.com\/en\/\">Free Speech Debate<\/a> for the chance to write this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this post for Free Speech Debate on what I could glean was the impact of the ITU&#8217;s World Conference on International Telecommunications, held in December in Dubai. I argue that while the media presented the &#8216;breakdown&#8217; of the talks as a fracture between Western democracies (notably the US) who support free speech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-a4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}