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Interview with ICANN's Karl Auerbach
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 ..."
Nobody would be allowed to decrypt an encrypted virus. If a Anti Virus Company writes software to protect against it or says how to protect against such a virus, it would violate DMCA. This would be the virus's ultimate protection against drugs.
OK, while I agree with the CONTENT of the article, the way it was written was just a bit biased. I get very nervous when folks start throwing around words like "infofascism" - while it may sound good, and it may have a grain of truth, it is a word designed to appeal to the emotions, not to truth - a word designed to push emotional buttons and short-circuit rational thought.
An otherwised unbiased and uninformed person will be inflamed by the article, one way or the other. But I fear that most people have a contrarian streak in them, and that most people's gut reaction to this article will be to dismiss it, since it is so blatently biased.
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As I told U.S. Senators recently, ICANN can pass a law that supersedes any law they can pass.
This is bad. VERY bad.
And probably a wet dream for Hillary Rosen, but that's beside the point.
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
While he may be leaving in November, do you really think that he will just go into submissive hiding? Hell no he won't, he'll go on to be one of the biggest advocates against ICANN, you can count on it.
Is this some type of new trend? Hell no it's not, basically it's a revolution, every now and then there needs to be someone to stir the pot up. It WILL happen in congress, it is ALWAYS happening in the supreme court, and well it's a little harder in the presidency, but has happened.
As usual, with anything ICANN related, it's time to plug OpenNIC again. Tired of ICANN, don't support them ... duh :-)
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
John presents his take on things in an recent Salon interview.
And what's SAIC up to these days (read John's interview)? Homeland security. They're on our side (cough).
--Lawrence Lessig for Congress!
"The result was the ideal fascist solution." No, actually, it wasn't. "A money machine for insiders" is many things, but that's not fascism.
Fascism is a particular political philosophy, not an organization whose politics you don't like. It places the rights and interests of the state above the rights and interests of the individual, because of a belief that the importance of the state to its citizens supercedes the importance of individual members.
I'm sure there are many, many problems with ICANN that deserve the attention that Mr. Auerbach has given them, and this is not at all meant to detract from that. Using words to insult, rather than carry meaning, bothers me no matter who the hell it comes from.
Don't toss around words without knowing what they refer to.
Carousel is a lie!
When I read interviews like this one, I don't how to react. I try to get more information, but it is so difficult to obtain unbiased facts.
I feel like I have been programmed by society to view comments like Auerbach's as "crazy conspiracy theory talk." And when I try to find information to support Auerbach, I do find some relevant and informative material, but most of it reminds me of Bush's "we must get the evil ones" speeches due to its uninformed and clearly biased nature.
I guess I'm trying to ask, "How worried should I be?" And can anybody point me to a source of informationt that cites references and tries to use facts only with no opinions?
For a funny, but true (except for the optimisitc predictions) anti-ICANN movies, see The Official ICANN Movie.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
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Infofascist, or Infrafascist? I suppose that would still make them fascist, but not as fascist as all those Ultrafascist organizations out there (*cough* RIAA *cough*)
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
it may or may not be exactly the fFull reasoning. but here's an answer to your radio signal loss.
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the problem was fFirst realized to major extent in places like atlanta, when commercially viable radio stations were starting to broadcast in sizeable areas. the radio station would put the the big radio antenna on top of a very tall building, and churn out a fFew billion hertz of radio waves. the idea was simple. make a big splash, cover as much area as possible. this was before stations really caught on to media markets in every town. so if atlanta's radio station could pump out a signal which could be heard as fFar away as chattanooga or chicago, well hooray!
but here's the problem. image taking a water hose, and point it straight up into the air.if the pressure is strong enough, it will spurt way up, and create a giant arc back down to the ground. if the pressure is really strong and the hose is exactly straight up and down and you have no wind (conditions which closer resemble a radio signal) then almost no water will land at the source of origin. it will have fFlown so high and created such a massive arc, the source itselfd remains dry.
so back to our radio signal. the signal is pouring out - over your head, blasting out across the land until it reaches somewhere the signal can spread out and fFall down on receving devices. if you turn the radio transmission girth down (like turning down the water pressure on our hose), you can not only target your specific commercial audience in one town, but you can actually hear the signal at all. which is what they fFound in major cities.
(does that make sense? i wish i had a dry erase board
They generally are bad for the simple reason that the people in the company with power become more and more removed from the customers' needs and problems. It's hard to avoid but it's nice if they at least try.
TWW
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This would work very well, IMHO.
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