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...and I used to think "House of Cards" was fiction.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:11 PM,
Nurani Nimpuno <span dir="ltr"><<a
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> On 15 Sep 2016, at 16:06, Jim Reid <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jim@rfc1035.com"
target="_blank">jim@rfc1035.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 14:44, Johan Helsingius <<a
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target="_blank">julf@julf.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> it has become a veritable soap opera...<br>
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> I thought it always was a soap opera.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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</span>Agreed. I was glad to see that they didn't get
sucked into trying to answer some of those rather absurd
questions.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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</span>Indeed. I must at that I thought both Strickling
and DelBianco were brilliant. I have never seen Strickling
quite so animated.<br>
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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. :)<br>
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> Much as it pains me to say this, Kieren’s article
in The Register absolutely nails it:<br>
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> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wrongheaded_internet_crusade/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2<wbr>016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wronghea<wbr>ded_internet_crusade/</a><br>
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</span>I also share your pain. :)<br>
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Nurani<br>
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