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After the sale, Ethos Capital, having paid $1.135 billion for .ORG to ISOC, will have to recoup that investment on a scale that's expected of a private equity firm. This week, Ethos revealed for the first time that some $360 million of the purchase price will be financed with a loan. The payments on that loan will have to come out of Ethos's profits, so they will probably need to raise more money per year than ISOC currently does. While Ethos could try to simply increase the number of its "customers" for .ORGs, PIR has tried this in the past, and the demand for the domains has remained largely flat. This is no surprise; the nonprofit sector just doesn't grow at exponential rates.
That brings us to the myriad reasons nonprofits have criticized the deal: every other way that Ethos might increase profits is bad news for .ORG users. And these tactics aren't farfetched: every one of them is already delivering profits in other sectors, often while harming domain registrants and their visitors.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/icann-needs-ask-more-questions-about-sale-org
Previously:
As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs
ICANN Demands Transparency from Others Over .org Deal; As for Itself... Well, Not So Much
Internet Society Says Opportunity to Sell .org TLD to Private Equity Biz Came Out of the Blue
As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent
.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital
ICANN Eliminates .org Price Cap Despite Overwhelming Opposition
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday January 20 2020, @09:44PM (2 children)
They are doing this right in the middle of the election when the .org people should all be focusing on election systems, and fighting propaganda. Also it is like Bruce Schneier said, 'we should consider public interest technology' and then the next week they were like 'let's eat the public interest web'. A billion dollars does not mean that much to these people, and the efforts of people who have .orgs outweigh that many times over, to the extent you are not a rich person.
This is insidious, some real 'devil's advocate' bullshit. The hand behind the hand. Thrive capital is behind patreon also, and likely....sigh...zionists. Like they have all this money and this is the thing they are trying to fix, right now. lol. Really are we supposed to believe this is a pure profit-driven decision?
Anybody? Feel free to try to argue that is the case in a comment Id like to hear it. Even from Erik Brooks himself.
I don't know what more I can do to try to prevent this than call them out and meme, if there is a chance to argue with someone behind it, let's do it, but this to me appears to be being imposed upon us, by our internet....overlords.
If it happens, I predict the price of .org/year in 2030 to be around 40eu and have several new hoops to prove something or other, and for the censorship to kick up a notch. Like, SN admins get letters for comments....like this one.
https://archive.is/2MFbn [archive.is]
https://archive.is/YxuED [archive.is]
https://archive.is/rWnr8 [archive.is]
https://archive.is/qfvXQ [archive.is]
https://archive.is/OPkTH [archive.is]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @12:55AM (1 child)
Meme the frist has potential.
#2 has too much going on visually. The reference is obvious, but it's very busy looking. It might make an average political cartoon for MSM circulation, but these are memes and we do not have a hypnotized audience!
#3 is absolutely correct. The thing about COINTELPRO is that it works. Well, this matter isn't strictly COINTELPRO. But a meme or slogan needs to be quick and emotional.
#4, hmm... I feel there's something to work with in #4. Instead of a lightning bolt, can we get Dio and some kind of Rainbow in the Dark?
#5 like #3 is tl;dr.
So #1 and #4 have some potential. For #1 perhaps remove "I am a rich dickwad" since it's explained in the other text that the dickwad is rich. IANAGraphicDesigner, but perhaps "i took your .org offline u shud stop makin rich people [recommend "ppl" instead] man then life so ez brah" would look good either in white across his dark suit or above his head. Easier to read if it's the full width of the picture. Don't be afraid of Comic Sans MS here.
Just ideas.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday January 22 2020, @01:37PM
I will take this all under advisement.
No meme will please everyone, and every meme should be imperfect, these are two rules I meme by. Also nothing stopping you from remixing, alls fair in love and memes. It would be bad form though to not credit me somehow, according to me.
People who complain about having to rotate or magnify, I have some patience but think to myself, boomers sigh.
Some effort should be required, all of my favorites in my collection take effort to read.
If you have never saved a 5mb image file to your hard drive that only had tiny text written on it, with like 3 fully clothed pictures of medieval royalty, you have never actually been on the internet.
And that would be sad.