Proposed Bylaws Change to Give Govts Dominate Decision Making on ICANN Board Should be Rejected

[Gordon Graham <g.gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am extremely concerned that ICANN is proposing to give control over its 
decision-making to government representatives. 

The internet has been built over many decades by individuals, academics, 
non-profits, and private companies, with the help of some government seed 
funding. 

To tilt the governance of ICANN completely towards governments is radical and 
intolerable. Many governments in our world are not democratically elected. Many 
would be delighted to deflect the internet to meet their agendas of political 
coercion and censorship. This is an obvious power-grab that reveals a very dark 
motive. 

Please grow a backbone and resist this call for government control of the 
internet. 

If you need support, ask the worldwide community for their comments in a more 
public way than simply these comments. You will get an earful, believe me. I 
believe not 2% of the worldwide internet community that would actually agree 
with this proposal. 

Thank you,
Gordon Graham 

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 Gordon Graham
 (705) 842-2428
 Thessalon, ON  CANADA
 g.gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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