Dear Friends
 
I think it is just a matter of very short time until someone will connect ICANN in some way to this. Even if ICANN has nothing to do with anything, it is a god send for the UN and ITU, they just need to mention ICANNs status as a US foundation.
 
We can see it as a problem or I think here is a opportunity. The root of all these problems is still the fact that the general public depends on the Internet, but does not know anything about how it is governed and run. ICANN suddenly looks a very very old organization because it is not capable to address the real issues of the time and is stuck in the past. What is needed now is a big push towards true democratization of the Internet, as awareness and involvement by all is the only way to govern the beast. It is the general ignorance that lets those in power get away with it. If I know that and how things are done I can try to control them, if I don’t even know the basics I am just condemned to ignorance and in this case ignorance is NOT bliss.  (When, oh when will we finally accept that the Internet is a common good and can and should not be in parts or as a whole be owned by anybody. We need a universal declaration of Internet rights NOW!).  You might have seen the emails and activities regarding this topic in the last month and weeks, (I-Inform alliance), so you will know the tools and concepts are in place, what is missing is the will and effort to do it now!
 
Yours
 
Klaus
 
(Those who want to know more about the I-Inform Alliance can send me an email and I will forward more info).
 
From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Alex Gakuru
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: ICANN Paranoia
 

I suspect that many people remain silent on this -- perhaps still stuck at the "Denial" stage on the Kübler-Ross model ?

[Sent from my tiny screen wireless device. Excuse mobile brevity and or unintended typos]

On Jul 3, 2013 10:54 AM, "Andrei Barburas" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
And personally, I am still not sure why everyone was/is surprised about the tapping and the surveillance..
 
What Snowden did, was just confirm the "theory". At the end of the day, just because you don't know about something, that doesn't mean that it's not happening.
 



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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Adam Peake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:





On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:13 PM, William Drake wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Marc Perkel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Considering the NSA and PRISM stuff and that they are into Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc - shouldn't we assume that ICANN has been compromised? Considering everything else they are into how can they not be into ICANN?
>>
>> Having said that - what does that mean to our trip?
>
> Maybe that we should have all worried less about having our computers compromised at the Beijing meeting?  Or, worried more broadly...