Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
One week after the news the non-profit .org internet registry was to be sold to a private equity firm, the board of the organization that has to approve the purchase met in private to discuss the situation.
Four days later, on November 21, that organization – ICANN – has yet to say a word about what it discussed or decided.
This past weekend, the board of the organization that is selling the rights to .org, and which will likely make $1bn or more from the sale, the Internet Society, met. On both the Saturday and Sunday, the proposed sale was a key topic of conversation. It has just to provide any details on what was discussed or decided.
The same cannot be said for those opposed to the deal.
One of the earliest indicators that the deal was going to meet a very different response from the internet community than the Internet Society (ISOC) expected came in the form of an article written by one person who has set up and run their own registry.
Co-founder of the .eco top-level domain Jacob Malthouse wrote an impassioned plea online that began, “I woke up this morning feeling a profound sense of loss.” An environmental campaigner as well as a former staffer of ICANN, Malthouse compared the sale of the .org registry to the paving over of forests.
The proudly non-profit .org registry, that had for years sold its domains for just $1 to non-profits in developing countries, is “our Yosemite,” Malthouse opined, referring to America's world-famous national park. In selling it to a for-profit private equity firm, he argued, “we’ve lost more than a digital Yosemite. We’ve lost our principles. We can do better. The millions of nonprofits who rely on .org deserve better.”
That sentiment was quickly echoed in the broader internet industry community, which, even in the era of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, continues to rely on mailing lists as its main form of communication.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @05:46PM (3 children)
Not that it hurts for you to post this stuff, but everybody does know the "sides".
The problem is that they're too comfortable to give a shit. They're not going to risk what little trickle down they have left. Just like golf and bowling, a 'revolution' requires follow through. The usual half-assed way of doing things only restarts the cycle.
You're attacking the wrong thing. You're attacking the creation, not the creator. You, me, we all built this vast 'conspiracy'. Yes, we follow direction very well, don't you think?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @06:00PM (2 children)
People need a leader. The system is smart enough to know that and it works very hard using people's money to find these leaders and destroy them before they can lead the people to freedom. We the people of the world are not free. Some people get targeted because they can change and destroy the very corrupt and evil government systems. These people could easily have become leaders. Be careful who you put your trust in. The government is not your friend and neither is any agent of the state.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by exaeta on Thursday November 28 2019, @12:57AM (1 child)
Freedom from what?
Our government is incompetent, and some actors malicious, but I don't think that we have a global freedom issue. The problem is that most voters are equally stupid and incompetent. Just be glad we aren't burning witches at the stake anymore. There is no boggeyman at the top, just a bunch of dumb religious nutcases at the bottom running the shitshow.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @02:09AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/opinion/trump-witch-hunt.html [nytimes.com]