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Milton Mueller reports in IGP: "On the 1st and 2nd of September in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian foreign relations ministry, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and the Center for Technology & Society (CTS/FGV) held what they called a 'Seminar' on Global Internet Governance. But while 'seminar' has an educational, even academic ring to it, this event was more than that. It was actually a preparatory conference for a major political initiative regarding Internet control. On September 13, the three important developing country governments — India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) — who ran the conference issued a statement that shows they are openly abandoning the distributed model of the Internet and rejecting networked governance and even the new multi-stakeholder models of governmental involvement. Now they are openly pushing for a new coalition of states to control the Internet. If Sarkozy wanted to 'civilize' the Internet, IBSA wants to intergovernmentalize it."

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