E-Commerce at WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) is effort to hijack basic internet governance issues
By Chakravarthi Raghavan / SUNS www.sunsonline.org
As issues relating to the monopolistic/oligopolistic control over information and data by the Silicon Valley technology giants and their platforms are beginning to attract adverse public and political attention around the world, these technology platforms (Google, Facebook, Twitter) are attempting to hijack the issue of internet governance and democracy by writing trade rules at the WTO under the rubric of "e-commerce".