What was the reaction to this suggestion? James Love wrote: > Funny you should say this. I was just at a Department of State briefing > on information policy last week, and when discussing a the need for new > global rules on consumer protection, Don Heath suggested ICANN as a > model, where NGOs (he meant business NGOs like MPAA and the BSA) played > a role. > > Jamie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Gordon Cook wrote: > > > > > Because ICANN is the WTO of the > > > Intenet > > > > At a National Press Club conference transmitted today by NPR, John Sweeney, >President of the AF of L-CIO, said that the WTO was a world government whose laws, >made without the consultation or participation of workers, are establishing a world >oligarchy of transnational corporations that will throw back workers' rights and >environmental protection to the union-busting days of the nineteenth century. > > > > Is the Internet to be the mechanism for WTO world government? Is this why the U.S. >Department of Commerce has created ICANN? What role are MCI and Vinton Cerf supposed >to play in it? Was Jones Day selected as ICANN's lawfirm because of their connection >with the transnational corporations controlling the WTO and benefitting from the >GATT? Under what law will we live in the 21st century, constitutional democracy or >the dictatorship of ICANN and the WTO? > > > > ======================== > > Michael Sondow ICIIU > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iciiu.org > > ======================== > > -- > James Love / Director, Consumer Project on Technology > http://www.cptech.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 > voice 202.387.8030 / fax 202.234.5176
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