RE: [atlarge-discuss] Act now -- Your privacy is at risk

[Joey Borda **star*walker** <starwalker@gay.com>]

At 10:29 PM 9/1/2002 -0700, Bruce Young wrote:

>Richard Henderson wrote:
>
>> . . . since they have no intention of
>> surrendering power to the @large, our only remaining policy 
>> is to "go round" ICANN and "bypass" their structures, by 
>> building an organisation which is so substantial and 
>> numerically convincing, that we can find supporters outside
>> ICANN to pressurise the Board into ceding us power.
>
>Yes.  It's obvious that our only chance to change their ways
>is through external pressure.

Power is NEVER ceded or surrendered. It can only be taken!

/s/ Joey

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 * 11:49 AM EDT USA

>> The WLS fiasco illustrates why ALAC is likely to be futile, 
>> powerless, and counter-productive.
>
>Any ICANN AL*C entity has been intended to keep people occupied
>so they can then force it espouse their "party line" then point
>to it as being the "consensus of users."  We need to organize in 
>such a fashion, and grow large enough, that they are forced to 
>listen to and deal with *our* party line!
>
>Bruce Young
>Portland, Oregon
>Bruce@barelyadequate.info
>http://www.barelyadequate.info
>--------------------------------------------
>Support democratic control of the Internet!
>Go to http://www.icannatlarge.com and Join ICANN At Large!
=====
  Everyone, please join me and all our esteemed colleagues
  for purely mindless fun at Café ByteMe & Playground!
--
                     *** Café ByteMe & Playground *** 
     We serve the Best Beverages & Bytes on the planet! 
                                     We never close! 
                                       You All Come! 
“Non-sense” only spoken here -- the Universal Language. ;-)
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InternetAtLarge_ByteMe_Cafe_Playground/ 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldAtLarge_ByteMe_Cafe_Playground/
=====