Re: [ga] Posting rights of Jeff Williams suspended for 14 days.

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Hi Dan!

I thought Danny Younger's remarks were right on target.

"the elimination of democratic institutions"... yep... goodbye to the
elected representatives of the At Large on the ICANN Board, and replacement
with a powerless group of top-down nominees

"the voting mechanisms of the General Assembly were forever denied to the
membership"... yep... goodbye to another layer of democracy and potential
dissent... long-live the self-perpetuating ICANN Board

"ALAC, whose goal is to legitimitize the total elimination of public
representation on the Board of ICANN"... yep... the whole point of ALAC is
to minimise and contain the impact of the internet user community and to
perpetuate the expulsion of the At Large directors

"Free speech is not compatible with an organization that seeks to deny the
public voice"... note the gradual elimination of the public forums (which
Stuart Lynn marginalised as "a joke")... note the failure of the ALAC public
forum to publish my critical mail last week (censorship again)...

ICANN is regarded with disdain because it is perceived as a self-serving
clique of insiders, working on behalf of the US Government, to administer
the DNS in the interests of the US, of commercial entities, of the IP lobby,
of its registry/registrar financiers, without accountability to the millions
of ordinary internet users to whom the Internet really belongs...

The comments of Jeff Williams were insubstantial. The instinct to "control"
and "dominate" from the top down, though, was again sadly indicative of a
mentality which could be seen as institutionally fascist and arrogant.

Lone voices of dissent can be marginalised, but Danny's is still the voice
of sanity and human decency.

I congratulate Danny Younger for his scrutiny, his perception, and his
analysis.

Richard Henderson


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>
To: <DannyYounger@cs.com>; GA <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Posting rights of Jeff Williams suspended for 14 days.


> ummmmmm....Danny,
>
> does the phrase "out of line" mean anything to you?
> I suggest you take a few minutes, go calm yourself...then come back
> re-read your post ...and think about
> a) what good it did?
> b) what harm it did?
> c) what (if anything) useful could result?
> d) how time might be better spent?
>
> Danny, you and the rest of the list have the power in your hands. If you
> choose to let others words inflame you, then you are letting them
> control you. You lose. bzzzzzzt!   Do you honestly want that? It is as
> simple as that. You own your feelings. No one else.
> Its not a domain name. There is absolutely no question who owns your
> feelings or what form of ownership it is :)
> You can choose to let things affect you. Or not. It is always your choice.
>
> Peace
>
>
> DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> >Thomas, drawing a parallel between Vittorio Bertola and the fascist
Benito
> >Mussolini was off the mark, but not by much.
> >
> >It is perhaps more appropriate to compare Vittorio, yourself, and all the
> >other members of the ALAC to those that collaborated with the fascist
regimes
> >during World War II.  The collaborators of that era willingly accepted
the
> >elimination of democratic institutions and then scrambled for power
within
> >the new fascist regime -- much like your own course of action in doing
> >absolutely nothing when the voting mechanisms of the General Assembly
were
> >forever denied to the membership.
> >
> >You presided over the demise of the General Assembly, and you were
rewarded
> >for your complicity.  Vittorio presided over the demise of icannatlarge
and
> >he similarly was rewarded for his complicity.  ALSC members Esther Dyson,
> >Pierre Dandjinou and Denise Michel helped to orchestrate the end of
At-Large
> >directors in ICANN, and they too were rewarded.
> >
> >All of you now find yourself seated on a body, the ALAC, whose goal is to
> >legitimitize the total elimination of public representation on the Board
of
> >ICANN.  You are in truth nothing more than collaborators intent on
spreading
> >the self-serving propaganda of this ICANN regime.
> >
> >So, enjoy the tyranny that comes with your position as appointed
"moderator"
> >of the list .  You have earned it.  Let there be no more "comparisons"
made
> >during your tenure.  Free speech is not compatible with an organization
that
> >seeks to deny the public voice.
> >
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