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usually this is my 1st stop to understand current topics re: ICANN etc. :: Milton Mueller at Internet Governance Project (1). his latest blog post may shed s

• alphapapa 10y ago
  That's a very interesting blog post. It contradicts itself multiple times. For example, in one paragraph it says that the fact that the GAO hasn't produced the congressionally mandated report for over a year must mean that there's nothing to report on. In the very next paragraph it says that the reason the GAO hasn't produced the report is probably because of "partisan gridlock." So which is it? Have they produced no report because there is nothing to report on (which is obviously silly; there's something to report, regardless of your opinion), or have they produced no report because of partisan gridlock? If the latter, as they suggest, how does that imply that there's nothing to report on? It would actually imply the opposite, that there is much to report on, but that political pressure is preventing them from reporting on it due to how an unbiased report would inconvenience certain political agendas. Just imagine, a CEO sees some troubling reports about his company's stock, hearing rumors of fraud and audits and lawsuits. He orders an accountant to produce a financial report for the last 6 months by Friday. Friday comes and goes, and so does another, until several months have gone by. Finally the CEO concludes that, since his accountant hasn't produced the ordered report, there must be nothing to report, and everything is fine. ??? That's the same logic they use in this article. This is just one example of the double-minded perspective presented in that article. The IGP is obviously strongly biased toward one political party, and they write deceptive articles to confuse the public and handwave away legitimate concerns.