Re: [IFWP] Re: Rule of law vs. consensus

[Bill Lovell]

At 12:46 PM 7/10/99 -0600, you wrote: 

>
> There has never been any formal vote by "we the people" around 
> the world giving our permission for the public Internet to become 
> privatised, and there certainly has never been any ballot measure 
> before the public transferring power to a committee called ICANN.  


Gimme a break.  We never got to vote on bombing Serbs, impeaching
Dipshit, or anything else, either.  That's how representative government
works.  And if there were not a world-wide concensus on taking the
Internet out of the hands of the USG, I don't know what it would take to
make one.  What you refer to as being the "public" Internet is and was 
in fact that which is under control of some government, in this case the 
USG. In this and like contexts, that's what "public" means.

Bill Lovell