Dear Ms. Kranich-
According to the FAIR announcement below, you are leading a
discussion tomorrow evening on "How To Fight the Corporate Takeover
of the Internet", yet on the agenda there is no mention of ICANN,
the non-profit corporation that has been set up by IBM, MCI, AT&T,
and US security groups to control the Internet infrastructure - the
domain name system and IP address allocation, and which has been
granted authority to do so by the Dept. of Commerce through an
undemocratic process.
Nevertheless, I believe you are aware of ICANN, since the American
Library Association is, if I am not mistaken, one of the
organizations chosen by the Markle Foundation (a National Security
Council front) to receive grant monies for helping organize ICANN's
so-called At-large Membership, which has been stripped of any power
to either elect ICANN's Board of Directors or influence ICANN's
policies, in direct violation of the USG's White Paper on the
Internet.
How do you explain the silence about ICANN at your FAIR meeting
tomorrow, on the one hand, and on the other your collaboration with
Markle and ICANN?
Yours,
Michael Sondow
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT INTERNET USERS
http://www.iciiu.org (ICIIU) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel(718)846-7482 Fax(603)754-8927
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FAIR presents:
NET LOSS: A Discussion of Information Equity &
How To Fight the Corporate Takeover of the Internet
with
Nancy Kranich
Associate dean, New York University Libraries & president,
American Library
Association
&
Frank Beacham
Journalist and technology critic
Thursday, February 24, 6:30 PM
Housing Works Used Book Cafe
126 Crosby St., (between Prince and Houston), NYC
*Free and open to the public*
What do mergers like the proposed AOL/Time Warner deal mean for
future of
the internet? What implications does the net's increasing
commercialization
have for online diversity and democracy? Join FAIR for a
discussion with
two of the country's strongest advocates of freedom of
information and
access equity.
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