{"id":136,"date":"2003-12-09T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T04:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=136"},"modified":"2003-12-09T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T04:36:34","slug":"ejected-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Ejected in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers of the Internet Summit in Geneva have had Dr. Paul<br \/>\nTwomey, the president of ICANN (the organization that&#8217;s chartered to<br \/>\nadminister the international domain-name system), ejected by security<br \/>\nguards after he&#8217;d flown twenty hours to participate in the<br \/>\nmeeting.<\/p>\n<p>I was not especially surprised.  The organizers of the Geneva<br \/>\nsummit seem to be very much the same scum of the planet that one<br \/>\nnormally finds running these U.N. events &mdash; third-string<br \/>\ndiplomatic timeservers, addle-brained NGO moonbats, a scattering of<br \/>\ncelebrity Eurotrash, and a legion of gray apparatchiks from<br \/>\nauthoritarian Third World pestholes.  It didn&#8217;t astonish me that<br \/>\nthey&#8217;d use force to keep out anyone who might interfere with their<br \/>\nplans for a government-friendly, politically-correct, censored, and<br \/>\nvery thoroughly <em>controlled<\/em> Internet.<\/p>\n<p>No, the really surprising part is that I found myself sympathizing<br \/>\nwith Dr. Twomey.  ICANN&#8217;s performance, while not the unmitigated<br \/>\ndisaster many of its critics like to portray, has not been glorious.<br \/>\nWay too many deals have been done in back rooms and the organization has<br \/>\nbeen far too kind to expansive trademark claims and other sorts of<br \/>\ncorporate land-grab.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the one salutary effect of the Geneva summit is to remind us<br \/>\nthat things could easily be worse &mdash; and almost certainly will be, if<br \/>\nthe U.N. gets control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers of the Internet Summit in Geneva have had Dr. Paul Twomey, the president of ICANN (the organization that&#8217;s chartered to administer the international domain-name system), ejected by security guards after he&#8217;d flown twenty hours to participate in the meeting. I was not especially surprised. The organizers of the Geneva summit seem to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=136\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ejected in Geneva<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}