[NCUC-DISCUSS] Bribery at ICANN

[Raoul Plommer]

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.

Whether the people in constituencies are corrupt or not, is besides my
point. 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

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.

-Raoul
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