ICANN, the non-profit corporation which oversees the backbone of the internet, has a new CEO in the person of Rod Beckstrom, former director of US National Cybersecurity Center. He takes over ICANN in a rather tumultuous time, and during a press conference, he put forth some of his ideas on how ICANN should work. Basic gist: the internet works fine, so there's little need for change.
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Member since:2005-07-06
SOME problems can't be solved. Whenever, wherever humans are involved you can be sure that greed and the need for self-preservation will overcome social consciousness. Rebellion, push back and even reason might seemingly make a dent in an issue, but don't be fooled, those in power will maintain their power.
Those in power are not kings and presidents, but usually people of means who aren't about to give up their lifestyle for you or me.
I am not ignoring the problem, I simply don't see a viable solution. If you have one, please enlighten me.
Member since:2005-07-06
Unfortunately, your are in many ways correct :/
However, one must remember that in a democracy a person is put into power by the masses voting). This same person can again be elected out of power.
Unfortunately, this appears to rarely be the case, since the general public for some odd reason appear to not mind a certain amount of corruption and many times they also seem to care about an election and stay home.
I still cannot fathom that people would ever stay home during election day, yet some places its almost as high as 50% or even higher (witness the recent EU elections). Its very sad to see.
fwiw, I feel that a true democratic process is the way forward. Then we can look at fixing why people aren't using their - fought for - rights to vote. So: Drop the US governments veto rights over ICANN and I'll be much more happy. (next stop, more members aboard - and lets try to avoid a UN situation).
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2005-07-06
yeah, problems tend to go away if you ignore them...