Why has the U.S. Department of Justice attacked and prosecuted Microsoft? Is Justice really concerned, as they pretend, to stop monopolization in the computer industry? Or is their real motive to stop the advent of successful alternative internets, like the Microsoft Network, to whose subscribers the U.S. intelligence community might not have access? What relation does the Microsoft antitrust case have with the creation of ICANN, which is occurring concurrently with it, and whose chief architect, Joe Sims, was an employee and is a colleague of the D.O.J. Antitrust Division, the people who are prosecuting Microsoft? Is ICANN a conspiracy of special commercial interests which have convinced or tricked the U.S. Government into supporting their plans? If not, who is really behind ICANN, this scheme to place authoritarian central control of the Internet in the hands of a few intimately acquainted persons all of whom are connected, in one way or another, with the U.S. Government? Is it NSI, on the board of whose parent company, SAIC, sit high-level officials of the three branches of military intelligence? Is it IBM/MCI/AT&T, whose executives in charge of the Internet have been in negotiations with the Department of Commerce since before ICANN appeared? Is it the Department of Commerce itself? The Department of Justice? U.S. Military Intelligence? ============================================================ Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927 ============================================================
