[governance] The New Class: Civil Society Professionals?

[Willie Currie]

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

He seems to be in the position of the prophet
Jeremiah here, making these dire predictions that you're not getting the
meaning of. If you have read previous posts on his blog, you would know 
that this is in
no way different from the views he normally holds, and frankly expresses.

The fact that this post of Veni's is no different from his previous 
posts goes to the point that I am making about classic propaganda 
techniques.Repetition is a feature of such techniques. I fully 
comprehend Veni's posts and find them offensive.

I would react with shock to see that what is ALSO a bitter criticism
of icann is being interpreted as a swiftboating campaign somehow engineered
by ICANN/ISOC PR

I am not saying that ICANN/ISOC are engineering a swiftboat campaign. I 
am saying that Veni as an ICANN staffer is not sufficiently 
differentiated from ICANN to be saying such offensive things purely in 
his private capacity without an association being created - to the 
detriment of ICANN's image. This is not a bitter criticism of ICANN - if 
anyone from ICANN is reading this post, I am pointing out that loose 
cannons like Veni, who deploy crude propagandist smears repetitively 
create a perception of ICANN by association which is not good for 
ICANN's PR strategy.

willie


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