[ga-full] everyone's getting involved in the kill ICANN movement

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

I can feel the momentum.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Richard J. Sexton (At work) wrote:

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> From: uj797@victoria.tc.ca (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.
> 

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