Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on 7/7/2000

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

Rick,

I'm more disgusted and offended by your email than John's. John's statement 
is protected (especially in light of Canadian and US broadcast regulations) 
under the 1st Amendment in the US.

It is a dissenting voice of ICANN's handling of Domain Name issues, and was 
posted to the General Assembly mailing list of the Domain Name Supporting 
Organization of ICANN. This happens to be the official forum, and news of 
that dissenting voice is entirely appropriate to initiate discussion in 
that context.

You, on the other hand, advocate censorship - to "stop unwanted e-mails" - 
of that which you do not agree. That censorship has absolutely no place in 
an open internet forum.

Whether I agree with the posting or not is totally irrelevant. The point is 
both you and Ken have attempted to stifle discussion about relevant current 
events which affect both the public face of ICANN, and the policies that 
are discussed in the DNSO.

The problem I now see is that the message rings truer after your and Ken's 
response than it did when it was originally posted.

>Ken,
>
>If we only could stop unwanted e-mails.
>
>I suggest the ADNS folks stop using ICANN gTLDs. If they would only
>use their own gTLDs and not ICANNs I think we all would be alot happier.
>
>ttfn,
>
>-rick
>
>
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ken Stubbs wrote:
>
> > this kind of an advertisement is not at all appropriate for the ga list !!!
> >
> > this is a forum for open discussion... not open advertising
> >
> >
> > ken stubbs
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: John Palmer
> >   To: ga@dnso.org
> >   Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:05 PM
> >   Subject: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on 
> 7/7/2000
> >
> >
> >
> >   Things are about to change on the internet and not for the better.
> >
> >   The US government has sanctioned a new organization, ICANN, to be
> >
> >   in charge of internet domains and addresses. Rather than making the 
> internet
> >
> >   more open, ICANN is restricting domain ownership rights and has sold out
> >
> >   to powerful special interest.
> >
> >
> >
> >   There is an alternative. The same characteristics that make the internet
> >
> >   able to survive a nuclear strike allow internet users to go around
> >
> >   organizations like ICANN and their special interest masters. Alternative
> >
> >   domain networks, such as the Open Root Server Consortium, allow you 
> to see
> >
> >   ALL of the sites available on the internet, not just the ones that ICANN
> >
> >   wants you to see. If you are an Internet provider, you can go around 
> ICANN and
> >
> >   make the entire internet available to your users in only 2 minutes. Are
> >
> >   you an internet user whose ISP is still using the ICANN-controlled domain
> >
> >   name system? A few simple steps is all it takes for you to bypass 
> ICANN and
> >
> >   see all of the sites on the internet.
> >
> >
> >
> >   This announcement is sponsored by ADNS, owner and registrar for the
> >
> >   top level domains EARTH, USA and Z. ADNS is a proud supporter of
> >
> >   the Open Root Server Consortium.
> >
> >
> >
> >   Do you operate a website? Are you frustrated that your first choice
> >
> >   for a domain name was taken? You can now obtain a domain ending in
> >
> >   ".EARTH", ".USA" or ".Z". To register an EARTH, USA or Z domain and for
> >
> >   more information about the ICANN takeover of the internet and what 
> you can do
> >
> >   to stop it, visit the ADNS website at WWW.ADNS.NET,
> >
> >   thats WWW.ADNS.NET. Don't let ICANN's special interests hijack the
> >
> >   internet and remember, ICANN really means YOU CAN'T
> >
>
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Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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