Clausing quotes Esther Dyson as saying regarding her service on ICANN "i do
not represent corporate interests; I represent the little guy."
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Esther's contempt for the internet is apparently so great that she thinks
she can say one thing to the press and have it uncritically accepted by the
business community to which she is selling out the interests of individuals
and small business and non profit orgs.
She apparently believes that the little guy who reads the net on ICANN
won't notice the contrast between her actions and her words. And that if
business leaders read it and see her hypocracy they will continue to stay
in bed with her anyway. because this is about money, after all, and to hell
with personal intergrity. she needs to take a ticket on the cluetrain.
Esther could solve the whole problem she has craeted very easily.
I call on her to tell the rest of the Board: I am not a hypocrite. i
really do believe in the little guy. i was speaking sincerely in my book.
Your attitudes have been forcing me to go against my real beliefs. ICANN
must be open with open board meetings and open processes. I really do
believe this and therefore to demonstrate my fundamental incompatibility
with your attitudes, I resign effective immediately.
ICANN would then reach a truly defining moment.
You can 't have your cake and eat it too Esther - time to choose. The
little guy and your own personal integrity or ICANN and big corporate
America.
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