[WSIS CS-Plenary] No offence taken

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Understand your views. Just to close this debate, you are right about
subjectivity of ethics and values, but perhaps it helps if you see the
chapter on "ethical dimensions of the Information Society" in the Geneva
Declarations. Hope those aspects are at the least aceptable. I also
understand where you are coming from so no offence taken.

Laina 

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On 25 sep 2005, at 20.43, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:

> - as for the notion of Ethics and Values raised by Avri, all I can say 
> is that anybody that interacts with Laina and the other members of 
> this caucus, could only testify that they are certainly not in the 
> direction of a morality approach but rather relentlessly promoting 
> harmony and mutual respect. More a buddist-type philosophy of 
> compassion than a christian right affirmation of supreme GOD-driven 
> moral principles (just a quick image of course)

I do not accuse anyone, at least no one in this discussion, of   
having a specifically prejudicial morality.  What I have problems with is
the introduction of morality and ethics into the discussion in general since
once you open that door, you have no chance for deciding that one
morality/ethics is any better or worse then another.  It ends up a matter of
religious belief, and as comendable as i may find some relgious belief  (i
even have my own), i do not believe it has any place in Internet governance
or management of the internet.

For similar reasons, i am concerned about any attempt to control content.
Yes, there is dangerous and bad content, but, in my opinion, the definition
of that is best left to national and international law rather then to
ethics, morality or religion.

a.

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