Re: [atlarge-discuss] Issues

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

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From: Jkhan <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>

>it's called: Taxation without
>Representation.

Yes indeed.

ICANN's main source of revenue? People who buy domain names (and ICANN want
to increase the ICANN tax on each domain name!)

Representation for those people? Nil

Moreover, what makes the Internet what it is? All the people who use it

Representation of those people? Nil

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In a democratic culture, this lack of accountability to the people who
finance you, and who you are set up to serve, is unacceptable to
right-thinking people.

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What we see in the spontaneous expansion of the Internet is a new culture,
with much more emphasis on co-operation between people and groups, and more
a "bottom-up" impulse which subverts monolithic structures and the old
world.

What we see in ICANN is a mindset which is stuck in the old, and tries to
impose a patriarchal hierarchy from the top. It is so out of step as to seem
bizarre.

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Yes Jkhan - "taxation without representation" indeed!

But just a symptom of a much wider malaise.

regards

Richard Henderson


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