02/27/2011
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"the process being done by the companies that gain the rights appears to this Member to be nothing more than legalized extortion."
"ICANN is a California-registered non-profit. Now, non-profits, even though they pay their CEO millions of dollars, non-profits can only be non-profits if they, in fact, exist for a public benefit."
"doesn't Congress have an obligation, along with the State of California I might say, to look at ICANN and say, you know, ICANN is making a ton of money, they seem to be in the operation of making a to..."
"There does seem to be two prices, the price when there is competition and the price when there is extortion."