Jay Fenello wrote:
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> At 08:22 PM 11/16/00, Judith Oppenheimer wrote:
> >A brief "special" board meeting followed at which Vint Cerf was
> >named new ICANN Chair.
I foretold that this would happen, over a year ago. The idea was
scoffed at. Now it has come to pass exactly as I predicted, and as
any astute and honest observer should have foreseen.
Vint Cerf was always slated to run the Internet Government. He
wasn't made chairman from the beginning because it would have been
too obvious that ICANN was fixed, but ISOC and its dictator Cerf
have been behind the ICANN fix even before the White Paper was
published. ISOC, its corporate backers, its creatures like CORE, and
its co-opted government officials like Burr are the conspiracy that,
in its blind and selfish elitism, has stifled every attempt to
achieve a balance of powers in Internet governance.
The appointment of Vint Cerf as ICANN chairman is the final proof,
if such were needed, that ICANN was never intended to be a
democratic organization, and that it was conceived and carried out
by a select group of Internet insiders who have always run the
Internet and who have now consolidated their control so that no new
people, and no users, can influence its policies.
This is the very definition of a dictatorship, and reflects the
arrogance of a national government that has reached such a pinnacle
of authoritarianism that it no longer feels the need to give even
lip service to the law, since it dominates the agencies supposed to
enforce the law, and which despises those of us who live and work
under its regime. This dictatorship has been achieved by control of
the press and of education, and by corrupting not only the people's
representatives but the people themselves.
Every one of you who acquiesces to the dictatorship of the Internet
through the undemocratic and illegal ICANN and its committees is
complicit in the betrayal and overthrow of Internet democracy,
indeed of democracy itself, since without free communication there
can be no democracy.
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