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Originally Posted by JPeterman
If you don't approve of ASACP, then stop giving them your money and support. Joan will wither away (even more than she has already).
She has proved to me and many others that she does NOT have this industries best interests at heart. Watch out for any self-appointed "industry watchdogs" -- remember that NO ONE VOTED or HAD ANY SAY AT ALL into who serves on the ASACP committe. Who is watching the watchers?
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I'm not against everything ASACP has done... the premise is solid. Fighting child porn is a solid goal. Many people in this industry want a mechanism for helping in that fight. When it sticks to fignting child porn and to an honest approach, ASACP can accomplish some good things.
But in this case all good sense was stragely set aside. In this case of .XXX it doesn't matter who's on the Advisory Council because it seems they weren't the ones who made the decision on Dot XXX, and Joan hasn't said otherwise. If that's not right and the Council voted then PLEASE tell us! So who made the decision? Why wasn't the Advistory Council asked to vote before that letter was sent to ICANN and funding was accepted?
Now we're going to see attempts to make this mandatory... apparently Senator Lieberman has already lined up to make the push, if Joan is right. The fact that making it mandatory would only HELP increase what ASACP gets in funds (since the Xbiz stoy says they cut a cut of every domain name) raises a serious "conflict of interest" concern.