[cooperation-wg] Yesterday's US Senate Hearing

To be completely frank, as a US citizen living in Europe, I could not be
more disgusted with Cruz's behavior. Even though I try to stay as
politically neutral as possible, I am more than happy to express my
feelings about this because I can and should criticize someone
misrepresenting my passport country and spreading false information as he
does.

I'm sincerely sorry you have to witness this spectacle. It is
beyond embarrassing.

-Michael

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Nurani Nimpuno <nurani at netnod.se> wrote:

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> > On 15 Sep 2016, at 16:06, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
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> >> On 15 Sep 2016, at 14:44, Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com> wrote:
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> >> it has become a veritable soap opera...
> >
> > I thought it always was a soap opera.
> >
> > FWIW I watched yesterday’s hearing. [Yes, I need to get out more.]
> Cruz’s conduct was  disgraceful and shameless. His whatabootery was off the
> scale.
> >
> > Strickling and Marby were asked questions equivalent to “is it true
> you’ve stopped battering your wife?”. They carefully avoided rising to his
> bait. Cruz’s sock puppets were asked “do you agree it will be bad if
> Russia, Iran and China get control of the Internet?”. Cruz threatened NTIA
> staff and accused them of breaking the law. Elected politicians simply
> shouldn’t attack blameless civil servants like that and certainly not in
> public.
>
> Agreed. I was glad to see that they didn't get sucked into trying to
> answer some of those rather absurd questions.
>
> > He was pursuing his own flawed agenda and ignored anything that
> contradicted that. His starting assumption is/was remarkable: USG is
> compelled to uphold the US First Amendment (free speech) and that somehow
> this extends to ICANN because of the IANA contract with NTIA.
>
> Indeed. I must at that I thought both Strickling and DelBianco were
> brilliant. I have never seen Strickling quite so animated.
>
> Their explanations were clear and straightforward and very eloquent. But
> clear explanation of the facts only works on people who are interested in
> understanding the facts of course. Let's hope reason prevails. :)
>
> > Much as it pains me to say this, Kieren’s article in The Register
> absolutely nails it:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wronghea
> ded_internet_crusade/
>
> I also share your pain. :)
>
> Nurani
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