vinton g. cerf a �crit:
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> i see there was a small typo in your note
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> At 11:31 PM 5/13/99 -0400, Michael Sondow wrote:
> >vinton g. cerf a �crit:
> >>
> >> You are welcome to your opinion, Mr. Sondow. Kindly let others
> >> read the entire document and decide for themselves.
> >
> >They read the entire fraudulent document when it was posted. I chose
> >the salient points for indicating the unspoken subtext, as is my
> >right and my habit as a
>
> producer
>
> >of self-serving and insidious
> >claptrap.
Mr. Cerf, this is the childish retort of someone who has been found
out, in the manner of "You're another" or "It takes one to know
one", as used by grade school children. Not what one would expect
from the father of the Internet. Or is it?
People will judge for themselves which is claptrap and which an
honest debunking. It is not I who has written sixteen times "the
Internet is for everyone" and then stated that their purpose is to
"reinforce the upward spiral of value", this latter evidently your
true purpose and clearly deriving from your identification with the
special-interest sector of big business e-commerce, quite
antithetical to the populist public-interest rhetoric of your
speech's title.
Anyone who knows a little psychology will realize at once that you
have repeated and insisted ad infinitum that "the Internet is for
everyone" because you don't believe it and so are compelled to
repeat it again and again in a transparent and pathetic attempt to
convince your listeners and yourself. That is, a compensatory
mechanism for what is the truth, the inadmissible truth, which is
that you don't want the Internet to be for everyone, that you
believe yourself to be part of an elite, one that has been made
wealthy and pwoerful by the exploitation of a public service, and
that you intend to parlay your position into ever greater wealth and
power.
As to your pretensions to interplanetary (why not intergalactic?)
networking, the fact that you would allow yourself to state such
patent looniness in public shows that you have become, to put it
mildly, somewhat less than a reliable witness. Further and
conclusive
evidence of this is the unreserved support that your organization
lends to a dishonest and undemocratic process: the supplanting of an
Internet community-created NewCo by a usurping group of liars
calling themselves the ICANN interim board, their attorney, the
perjurer Sims, and their protector, the feckless and ambitious Burr.
Your credibility and that of your organization have gone down with
that of these charlatans. As the Spanish say, "If you lie down with
swine, you get up smelling of pig."
You will console yourself, no doubt, with the thought that what you
have created you may destroy, much like a real father whose children
rebel against him for having become conservative with advancing age
and who curses the product of his seed. It will be their chore to
take from you the patrimony that you are in danger, in your dotage,
of squandering. Unless by some happy chance you awaken in time.
