Doesn't the existence of this article disprove your hypothesis?
At 02:17 PM 8/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Here's another story on ICANN that
>properly frames the debate. And it
>is exactly this perspective that is
>being suppressed by the media.
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>Excerpts from:
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>http://intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue280/item6052.asp
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>The ICANN Ruckus
>by James Love
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>As presently constituted, ICANN could make policy on issues like spam,
>copyright enforcement, privacy, standards for digital contracts or funding
>Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa. It could do this and much more, or
>it could do very little other than attend to narrow technical issues. In
>other words, ICANN, via its own discretion, might just become the driving
>governing voice of the Net.
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>ICANN will have governmental-type powers, but it will ultimately be a
>private corporate entity. It can (and has) changed its bylaws at will,
>needing just a two-thirds majority.
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>ICANN critics share a deep unease about concentrating this much power over
>the Internet in the hands of a private and largely unaccountable body.
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>It is becoming clear that ICANN is an entirely new system of governance for
>the Internet.
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>Under the current proposals, ICANN can pursue its own governance agendas,
>be captured by various special interests, and make policy decisions that
>are of great importance.
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>Froomkin notes that the Magaziner White Paper, and its offspring like
>ICANN, are not proposals for no rules, but rather for shifting
>responsibility for who will make rules, without any clear answers about how
>the public's rights are protected.
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>When we talk about "self governance," we need to begin to talk about who is
>the "self" and what is the "governance." We are inventing a new world
>government for cyberspace, but we are not creating a new world democracy in
>cyberspace, and this is the problem.
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>Let's go back to the drawing board and rethink governance in cyberspace,
>with the explicit goals of protecting individual rights and providing
>democratic accountability.
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>+++
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>Respectfully,
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>Jay Fenello
>President, Iperdome, Inc.� 404-943-0524
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>"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
>ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third,
>it is accepted as self-evident." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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