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Interview with ICANN's Karl Auerbach

Posted by timothy on from the look-but-don't-touch dept.

katie writes "Great interview! ICANN, the Infofascist organization which rules the Internet with more effective power than any government, was told yesterday to 'fess up and show its knickers to reform-minded Board member Karl Auerbach. DesktopLinux.com Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean interviewed Auerbach at the Los Angeles Superior Court ..."

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  1. Re:My take ... by Gorobei · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wish it were that simple. ICANN has big money and politics behind them. They will:

    1) dump several gigabytes of electronic information on him - good luck finding the needle in the haystack.
    2) mark tons of stuff confidential.

    He doesn't have the time to build a case based on the interesting stuff, he's off the board real soon now. He can't leak the interesting stuff he finds -- 10 days = 6 months with holidays, court delays, and various appeals.

    So, at best he finds some minor graft (e.g. those lovely ICANN vacations and travel expenses,) and some serious evil (a few hundred million $ to cronies for non-competitive bids to "administer the net.") He can't copy the evidence, and loses his right as a board-member to pursue within a few months. Even if he finds evidence, ICANN will appeal it as confidential, run out the clock, and claim he has no standing to continue. He's screwed, we're screwed.