Re: [ga] Taxation without Representation etc.,

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 12:00:31 PM, Asaad Y. Alnajjar   (Millennium Inc.) wrote:

> Oh well, one more article along the same subject.

> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/wr_nm/media_internet_icann_dc_1

Same article (reuters wire).  And just as ignorant at yahoo as it was a News.com  :)


> Asaad




> At Tuesday, 25 June 2002, William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> wrote:

>>Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 10:12:30 AM, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>
>>> Here's the latest from news.com:
>>
>>> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939061.html
>>
>>> These are the kinds of articles the public interest needs in the 
>>> mainstream media... my only question:  Why the hell haven't the 
>>> mainstream media people spoken up about ICANN's questionable activities 

>>> in the past?
>>
>>I really hate ignorant reporting, especially from those reporting on
>>the tech industry.
>>
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>EU officials also said they would prefer that the U.S. Department of
>>Commerce, the government body that spawned ICANN in 1998, relinquish
>>control of the root-server system, a master control database of
>>Internet sites that ensures that Web traffic gets to its intended
>>destination..
>>
>>The fear is that in the wrong hands the enormous database could be
>>mined to determine all comings and goings on the Internet. Although
>>there is no evidence that this has happened, the issue has attracted
>>added attention in recent months as law-enforcement officials seek to
>>shore up defenses against feared acts of cyberterrorism.
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>
>>The root zone doesn't need to be mined, it is public.  There is no
>>sane reason to not have it public, and that last paragraph is just
>>plain ignorance.
>>
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>>Best regards,
>>William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
>>--
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>>
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William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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