Here's another example of media bias,
and why this debate is not being covered
in a neutral fashion among several large
news outlets:
[cloaked due to the private nature of this email]
>At 09:52 AM 7/16/99 , a reporter with another large, biased,
>nationionally-distributed news outlet wrote:
>>Jay,
>>
>>Good point, but aren't you philosophically a natural ally of NSI from the
>>perspective of wanted for-profit, non-competitive registries?
>
>
>I don't mean this in a mean-spirited
>way, but your biases are showing.
>
>In your city, there are multiple radio
>stations competing for your listening
>pleasure. Some of those are *private*,
>and some of those are *public*.
>
>Would you call those *private* radio
>stations "non-competitive"?
>
>I wouldn't, and neither would many
>others in this debate.
>
>Frankly, it is exactly this type of
>prejudgment on the part of certain
>members of the press that result in
>charges of media bias.
>
>Furthermore, you are with the *one*
>media outlet that I consider even more
>biased than news.com. I had hoped that
>the recent promotion of the perpetrator
>of your bias would substantially change
>your coverage. Looks like it won't :-(
>
>
>>NSI wants this (ie. they want to keep .com, .net, and .org in perpetuity
>>and be able to charge registrars whatever they can, whatever "the market
>>will bear" -- interesting thought when you've basically got a monopoly).
>>Similarly, you want it for .per.
>
>
>Yes, and Coke want's to keep it's
>rights to the property that it has
>developed. I'm sorry, I don't see
>any crime here.
>
>
>>As you know, the notion of unchecked, non-competitive registries is NOT
>>supported by the U.S. government or ICANN.
>
>
>The U.S. Government is a diverse
>collection of people. While Becky
>Burr might agree with you, others
>like the FTC have publicly supported
>my view of the World.
>
>Frankly so has Esther. Check out
>a clip from Release 1.2 below:
>
>
>Esther Dyson in Release 1.2 wrote:
>>
>>The Nature of Freedom
>>
>>Overseas friends of America sometimes point out that the U.S.
>>Constitution is unique -- because it states explicitly that power
>>resides with the people, who delegate it to the government, rather
>>than the other way around.
>>
>>This idea -- central to our free society -- was the result of more
>>than 150 years of intellectual and political ferment, from the
>>Mayflower Compact to the U.S. Constitution, as explorers struggled
>>to establish the terms under which they would tame a new frontier.
>>
>>And as America continued to explore new frontiers -- from the
>>Northwest Territory to the Oklahoma land-rush -- it consistently
>>returned to this fundamental principle of rights, reaffirming, time
>>after time, that power resides with the people.
>>
>>Cyberspace is the latest American frontier. As this and other
>>societies make ever deeper forays into it, the proposition that
>>ownership of this frontier resides first with the people is central
>>to achieving its true potential.
>
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Jay Fenello
>President, Iperdome, Inc. 404-943-0524
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>
