<div dir="ltr">lol <div><br></div><div>+1 Bardu.<div><br></div><div>The Land of The Free!</div></div><div><br></div><div>Snowden and Wikileaks have been a real diplomatic nightmare for Uncle Sam.</div><div><br></div><div>Ali, That NSA ruling by federal district court Judge Richard Leon can be part of the larger grand scheme. I hope you get the drift.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 December 2013 07:05, Badru Ntege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>When you spend the last twenty plus years preaching privacy and the virtuals of a free and open society and then you get your hands a caught in the cookie jar, you have no choice but to publicly swallow humble pie.</div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In a landmark ruling a Federal District Court judge ruled on Monday that the National Security Agency program that is systematically keeping records of all Americans’
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</div><div>For the Americans to try and recover some moral authority they needed to do this. Which by the way I like since as thin as it maybe it becomes a scary world where no one has Moral authority. </div><div class="im">
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Despite the system being broken, is the American influence on Internet Governance the best we have right now? I can't imagine such a ruling in China or Russia, let
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<div> I still think we need to take this opportunity to widen the discussion on how we want to see our internet governed in future. And thus the BRICS to start this discussion I think can only have future positive outcomes.</div>
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<div>We tend to have a local pre-occupation on Internet governance but this discussion needs to be global. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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