IP: Re:CANN to levie fees, for reduced influence.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Karl is a Board member of ISOC
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:25:13 -0800 (PST)
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Reply-To: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, David Farber wrote:
>
> >
> > >From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer () icbtollfree com>
> > >To: <dave () farber net>
> > >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:50:03 -0500
> > >
> > >Committee Advises Internet Overseer To Cut Role Played by General Public
> > >Associated Press
>
> You know, if the logic of the ICANN At-Large Study Committee proves
> infectious, the United States might find it useful to eliminate those
> pesky voters.  It *is* such a pain to have to deal with voter
> registration, with campaigns, with public disclosure, with elections, with
> hanging chad.  Certainly it would be a lot less expensive for corporations
> to buy their legislators directly without having to try to influence
> voters.  And think of how that money saved will improve the bottom line of
> those corporate "stakeholders" and how it will trickle down to the
> ex-voters.
>
> May we never forget that "what's good for General Motors is good for the
> country." - Charles E. Wilson, the former head of General Motors and
> Secretary of Defense under President Dwight Eisenhower.
>
>                 --karl--


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