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dcterms:Date	"2015-02-09"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20150209.13.1-085-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:John Stuart Agnew2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, if there is a phrase which should put all of us on our guard, it is that of internet governance. Every politician who believes in freedom of thought, expression or religion, or in free enterprise, should feel a chill at the words ‘internet governance’. The themes of the meetings of the IGF over recent years have been full of feel-good buzz words, but that is all they are. The existence and growth of the internet and its facilitation of the exchange of ideas horrifies established elites who are no longer able to control and manipulate information to their advantage. For them the internet is the greatest threat to the established order since the publication in the late Middle Ages of the Bible in the vernacular. Eternal vigilance is needed to ensure that governance is not merely a cover for state control. Plainly there should be the means of preventing the dissemination of, for example, child pornography, or material that facilitates terrorism. But every attempt to control freedoms and free enterprise should be fiercely resisted. Secondly, we must remember that the internet is largely the creation of free enterprise. When we hear anyone talking about how governments must act to promote or provide growth for the internet, we must never forget that governments are pretty much incapable of managing their own IT projects, and the notion of the governments being the driver of growth on the internet is illusory. The principal duty of the IGF should be to guard the freedom of the internet and to create the conditions in which free enterprise can flourish, not to introduce pettifogging regulations which clog its arteries. By all means have agreements on internet addresses and international standards for internet hardware, but leave ordinary human beings alone to promote the internet as a motor for freedom and growth."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Stuart Agnew,"1 "on behalf of the EFDD Group"1
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