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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur T. Murray)
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Subject: Proletarians of the World Wide Web, unite against ICANN!
Date: 6 Mar 2000 07:37:50 -0800
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Proletarians of the World Wide Web, unite against ICANN!
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/ ZDNet: News: Page One last week had
"Coop's Scoop: From chips to Cheops" by Charles Cooper on how the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was
planning to meet (in a fashion attributed once upon a time to
mad King George III in the Yankee Declaration of Independence:
ca. "...he has held meetings in unreasonable, far away places")
in Cairo, Egypt, near the pyramid scheme of Carlo Ponzi, no,
wait, near the Pyramid of Cheops. Observe the excerpted Talkback:
http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,85358-363296,00.html
ICANN (q.v. supra) is a rip-off of historic proportions, calculated
to turn the taxpayer-funded Internet over to greedy WTO-style
corporations. Holding the meeting in Egypt is a Machiavellian way to
look international but in reality to prevent hoi Interent polloi from
attending the meeting. Also in the week whut wuz, but not Scooped here
by Coop, transpired another sneaky ICANN maneuver to get P.T. Barnum
60-an-hour types (suckers) to sign up as "at-large" members of ICANN,
to grant the rip-off organization a broader veneer of legitimacy. Now,
there are good people involved with ICANN, such as the justly admired
Esther Dyson who is personally above reproach, but these ICANNeers are
dupes of the scam of taking the Internet away from the human race --
as represented by democratic government -- and of handing the greatest
communications vehicle in human history over to the grasping, greedy
clutches of the multinational corporations -- consolidating before our
Y2K eyes into enormous monoliths of privilege and rapaciousness.
Citizens! Netizens! Cosmopolitans! Resist the ICANN give-away
of the Internet and demand that your elected government shall
govern the Internet forever in the name of the people who paid taxes
to create the Internet -- as described by Ronda Hauben (q.v.) in
her publications on the history of the Internet. Keep the Internet
untainted and free for public domain initiatives such as the
http://www.geocities.com/mentifex/mind4th.html Mindmaker Project
and for its proper role as the information infrastructure of the
citizens of the world -- NOT the private property of big corporations.
Save the Internet from ICANN now, or lose the Internet and eventually
Freedom itself.
