Diane Cabell wrote:
>
> I do not teach a seminar of any kind for the Association of Internet
> Professionals. Your statement is a total fabrication.
A total fabrication? Then why does Bret Fausett's website
(http://www.lextext.com/news/3-2.html) say ""Diane Cabell, an AIP
member and fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Study
of Internet and Society, will conduct an online tutorial for persons
interesting [sic] in learning about the UDRP"?
> I
> have never stopped anyone from doing anything about his/her outrage. > I have never
>been in any position in which I could do so
On the contrary, it is precisely what you have been doing, ever
since ICANN got started, by pretending to offer people a way of
reforming ICANN's faults. You led many people down the garden path,
for a long while, with your shenanigans in the so-called Membership
Advisory Committee, and you are doing the same thing with the UDRP
and whatever other ICANN structures you act as an apologist for. You
are a defuser of outrage.
> To compare the significance of ICANN activities to
> the holocaust and torture of decent people is, IMHO, demeaning to the
> latter and attempts to trivialize those horrific experiences.
The comparison was between Bret Fausett's futile and
counter-productive Requests For Reconsideration and the equally
demeaning and servile begging by impotent persons and organizations
in the face of authoritarianism in the past. I think those
comparisons are apt. They describe a similar condition: the
pretenses of cowards in the face of a real threat to human
well-being.
The Internet has been a force for democracy; it is being subverted;
you and Bret Fausett, instead of fighting it, are acting to present
its evil as palatable, its perpetrators as conscientious people. You
are a defuser of outrage, and an aid to the enemy.
Why do you do this? For the same reasons that it has always been
done: self-concern, and an indifference to the fate of others.
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