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>From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Jay Fenello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: DNRC on ICANN Elections Study
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>On 06-Mar-2000 Jay Fenello wrote:
>> ICANN has further muzzled public participation by imposing an
>> arbitrary censorship scheme, allowing the list moderator to expel a member
>> from the General Assembly with no right of appeal. ICANN must show that it
>> trusts democracy by empowering the General Assembly, otherwise its
>> experiment in "cyber-democracy" in the general membership will continue to
>> be regarded with skepticism.
>
>It is a pity that an otherwise interesting paper has to resort to falsehoods.
>
>The DNSO does not expel a member with no right of appeal. The DNSO list,
>quite correctly, will limit someone's posting privileges if a legitimate
>complaint is made that someone's postings have been offensive or otherwise
>violated common rules of civil discourse. Thye are not expelled, they are
>merely prevented from posting for a very short period of time (2 weeks).
>
>The ONLY exclusion is for multiple aliases for one person. If there is
>sufficient reason to believe that two "identities" are actually one person,
>then they can be requested to provide proper identification to authenticate
>that they are indeed unique persons. If they are unable or unwilling, then the
>SAA can rule based on the evidence. The excluded person can certainly appeal
>to the chair, or provide identification at a later date to reverse the
>challenge. But in no event are ALL of a person's "identities" removed. They
>are permitted to keep one, and the proof is held privately and not made public
>knowledge, so other than the SAA no one else need know that the person is using
>a pseudonym to participate. They just can't use more than one.
>
>There are no expulsions, no censorship. It is unfortunate that an otherwise
>excellent paper marred itself by making false accusations. The current track
>record of actions taken under this policy clearly show that it is working
>exactly as it was intended.
>
>Any assembly that cannot adopt and enforce simple rules of civil discourse is
>not a serious assembly. Every public forum as rules of participation, and the
>DNSO GA list rules are an excellent example that can be held up as a correct
>way to manage these issues.
>
>Let's criticize where criticism is due, but let's not resort to fiction for the
>sake of criticism.
>
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