<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Raoul,<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 25, 2016, at 13:12, Raoul Plommer <<a href="mailto:plommer@gmail.com" class="">plommer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class="">It's my general point of view, that any organisation as big and powerful as ICANN wouldn't be immune to corruption, be it in the form of bribes or other means. It's not a conspiracy theory, when you state that water is wet, either.<br class=""><br class="">Whether the people in constituencies are corrupt or not, is besides my point.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>This is a publicly archived mail list that is read by staff and other parts of the community and you are throwing around groundless assertions about bribery while standing for election to a leadership position. Sorry but this does not help NCUC’s position in the community and its various organs.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class=""> When I said that only a few constituencies can't be paid off, I meant that like in the case of BC and Facebook in China, that being "paid off" would be access to the chinese markets, at the expense of human rights. I think the CSG will be on China's and Facebook's side on this. They accept human rights as long as it's not making a too big a dent in their profit margins. I think the registrars and registries could go down the same route, to access the Chinese markets. I am sorry I wasn't clearer earlier, but I was trying to save time. :P</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class="">I now need to make a submission for the RightsCon 2017, for MyData and I will try my best to ignore the rest of the conversation that we need to be having on NomCom review, for the rest of the day. However, I do feel that it's an extremely important one and hopefully everyone will join, like I will, tomorrow latest. Let's carry on in that particular thread.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Suspect we are all busy, but people were taking the time to respond to you.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Bill</div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>