...and I used to think "House of Cards" was fiction. Kindest regards,
Olivier On 16/09/2016 10:58, Michael Oghia wrote: > To be completely frank, as a US citizen living in Europe, I could not > be more disgusted with Cruz's behavior. Even though I try to stay as > politically neutral as possible, I am more than happy to express my > feelings about this because I can and should criticize someone > misrepresenting my passport country and spreading false information as > he does. > > I'm sincerely sorry you have to witness this spectacle. It is > beyond embarrassing. > > -Michael > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Nurani Nimpuno <nur...@netnod.se > <mailto:nur...@netnod.se>> wrote: > > > > On 15 Sep 2016, at 16:06, Jim Reid <j...@rfc1035.com > <mailto:j...@rfc1035.com>> wrote: > > > > > >> On 15 Sep 2016, at 14:44, Johan Helsingius <j...@julf.com > <mailto:j...@julf.com>> wrote: > >> > >> it has become a veritable soap opera... > > > > I thought it always was a soap opera. > > > > FWIW I watched yesterday’s hearing. [Yes, I need to get out > more.] Cruz’s conduct was disgraceful and shameless. His > whatabootery was off the scale. > > > > Strickling and Marby were asked questions equivalent to “is it > true you’ve stopped battering your wife?”. They carefully avoided > rising to his bait. Cruz’s sock puppets were asked “do you agree > it will be bad if Russia, Iran and China get control of the > Internet?”. Cruz threatened NTIA staff and accused them of > breaking the law. Elected politicians simply shouldn’t attack > blameless civil servants like that and certainly not in public. > > Agreed. I was glad to see that they didn't get sucked into trying > to answer some of those rather absurd questions. > > > He was pursuing his own flawed agenda and ignored anything that > contradicted that. His starting assumption is/was remarkable: USG > is compelled to uphold the US First Amendment (free speech) and > that somehow this extends to ICANN because of the IANA contract > with NTIA. > > Indeed. I must at that I thought both Strickling and DelBianco > were brilliant. I have never seen Strickling quite so animated. > > Their explanations were clear and straightforward and very > eloquent. But clear explanation of the facts only works on people > who are interested in understanding the facts of course. Let's > hope reason prevails. :) > > > Much as it pains me to say this, Kieren’s article in The > Register absolutely nails it: > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wrongheaded_internet_crusade/ > > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wrongheaded_internet_crusade/> > > I also share your pain. :) > > Nurani > > > > > > -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
