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    ICANN/ISOC is the Master of Liability Deflection
    by Anonymous on Monday April 24 2006, @09:31AM (#16721)
    ICANN/ISOC is the Master of Liability Deflection

    People just do not get it. The spooks, academics,
    and legal players behind the whole Cerf Society
    house of cards (ICANN, ISOC, ARIN, etc.) are
    masters of Liability Deflection.

    All of the systems they have set up are designed to
    provide a continuous run-around. Most people get
    tired of the game and fade from the scene.

    If you have an issue with a Registry, the Registry
    will tell you ICANN makes them do what they do.
    ICANN claims the Registries operate on their own.
    Registrars are the same way, they claim the
    Registry calls the shots, yet they pay ICANN to
    endorse them as Registrars. It is ironic that the
    entire concept of a Registry and Registrar is
    totally artificial, and not needed. The Cerf
    Society just makes it all up as they go along.

    One of the main attributes of the Cerf Society is
    that they are never responsible or accountable
    for anything. Pay no attention to what they do
    with all the revenues. That is their private
    money they treat like donations. The Consensus
    Sham is one of their many outs, which they invoke
    to give people the old verbal kiss off (.VKO).
    They claim everything is based on "Community
    Consensus". It is a street-gang-like cop-out.

    They have built billion dollar personal fortunes
    on it, for decades. They really believe that they
    are "right" and a "success". They tell each other
    that every chance they get, but they never line
    up to be accountable or responsible.

    ICANN's next secret move is of course to deflect
    a lot of attention and liability to the new
    NeuStar conglomerate the insiders are building
    to serve ICANN. Watch the shell game as the .XXX
    liabilities are pushed off to New.Net and the
    new "community" ICANN is grooming. ICANN has
    plenty of funding and is not going to risk any
    of that. The new game (actually the old game also)
    is to control, grow, and deflect 99% of the
    legal liabilities to suckers in line ready to
    carry the ball, and pay ICANN for the honor of
    doing that.
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