Re: [atlarge-discuss] FYI: [CNET] ICANN under Twomey to continue policy focus

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Judyth and all fellow members,

 Judyth makes some very good points here in her rather long winded
and politically expedient comments/remarks below.  They should be
strongly and properly considered in good faith.

  However, with respects to the UN charter on human rights, which
is a now nearly worthless document as it is only occasionally
upheld by it's present members, and hasn't been universally or
even by a majority upheld for more than 13 years.

  Another rather odd but understandable inconceivable mix
in Judyth's comments as she attempted to apply to this
fledgling organization, is that clearly the fledgling organization
is not yet even a true organization, and that human rights
of any kind do not necessarily apply to organizations as they
have no legally defined citizens as nation states do.  Indeed
however some if not many of this fledgling organizations
members are stakeholders/users and as such have the right to
representation, as well as the responsibility.  We thus far
have failed terribly to take that responsibility seriously if
at all.  Until or unless we do, we effectively as a body of
stakeholders/users cannot assert the rights to which Judyth
is referring and be taken seriously.

  Therefore the "Regime" that needs changing or replacing is
indeed ICANN in this context, and this organization must
get it's act together to be able to cooperatively aid in
effecting that Regime change, or face relative obscurity.

espresso@e-scape.net wrote:

> At 16:18 -0800 2003/03/22, Eric Dierker wrote:
> >Life, liberty, freedom, happiness and privacy seem to be left out of
> >this
> >statement. Funny thing these basic fundamental human rights that
> >should be
> >promoted by the Internet.  What is a Regime, as opposed to governance?
>
> My quick answer would be "one particular coterie's preferred
> form of governance" rather than the more general form where
> "regime change" requires a free election rather than military
> intervention.
>
> We "at large" citizens need to keep in mind that for some people,
> including the current ICANN regime, the Internet is about the
> nowhere-sanctified "right to profit" rather than just another
> realm where *human* rights are meant to be respected and aren't.
>
> You need look no further than statements by various people that
> ICANN *is* an organization of Internet users -- that is, of the
> parties using the Internet who have enough money and political
> influence to matter (paraphrasing Stuart Lynn here). The policy
> direction is that of the "New World Order" where the majority of
> humanity are not citizens but merely a pool of cheap labour and
> potential captive market, and everything possible must be done to
> take the power of governing *away* from democracies and
> give it to those with the strongest commercial interests.
>
> I can't put my hands on the exact quotation at the moment but
> John Maynard Keynes expressed the fundamental philosophy
> behind all this: that is, a belief that the "nastiest of men
> acting for the nastiest of reasons" will somehow achieve what
> is best for the world through the operation of unregulated
> market forces. Like Keynes, I have no faith whatever that
> the "best" that can be achieved by such means will be best
> for anyone but the nasty men in question.
>
> Yours for Internet governance which respects the UN Charter
> of Human Rights,
>
> Judyth
>
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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