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This is a typical lobby tactic. I spent many years fighting similar interests related to DNS issues at ICANN and in Washington. Our position was to support a smaller ICANN and more control by the community - less regulation and more checks and balances. Anyways, we were always bouncing up against Big Business, Big Media and the Telco's and they would lobby back under the guise of organizations like The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, The Free Speech Coalition, Net Choice and many others. After a while when I came across a new group, I'd just take the opposite of what their name said and that usually represented their position.

Many of these groups have mastered pre-emptive appropriation of key terms, usually forcing the opposition to do verbal backflips in order to make their point without conceding the oppositions opinion.

Looking back, I hated every second of it.



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