Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates]

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Karl,

I agree almost word for word with what you said - subscribers of [ICANN-EU] 
may remember my post on the subject - but I need to correct one detail.

You wrote:
>
>By-the-way, I resigned from the ICANN Domain Name Supporting
>Organization's General Assembly because it imposed censorship - I'm
>opposed to official gagging of any person, even if obnoxious to the point
>of obscenity, while there exists the ability of individual recipients to
>use tools like procmail and the like to cover their own ears.  I prefer
>shunning by individuals to censorship by mangement or government.
>

I much regretted your departure from the DNSO/GA, but I must repeat what I 
stated at that time, i.e. that we *did not* impose censorship, we provided a 
filter that people could choose to use or not.
They could subscribe to the "full integral version" (and 3 GA members did 
that) or to the "filtered version" (chosen by everybody else).
In fact, we did what you described very well in your answer to point 1:

>
>No - with the following comments.  I believe that there ought to be
>services that people can opt-in to that will perform filtering/censoring
>(let's not get into a debate on the quality of such filtering/censoring
>technology. ;-)

The disagreement was, if I remember correctly, on the fact that the 
"monitored/filtered" version was the default, i.e. that we asked for action 
to choose the "full" version. It may well have been a mistake (and if the 
effect was to lose you from the list, indeed a mistake it was), but the 
rationale was the obvious forecast that the large numbers were in the 
"monitored", not in the "full".

Regards
Roberto

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