That influence threatens to undermine the values of diversity and bottom-up control that has enabled the Internet to flourish as a platform for education, commerce and democracy. I am strong believer in balanced and limited intellectual property rights. They are eager to use whatever means they can to protect their view of how content should be controlled. That regime has now exploded into thousands of proceedings to adjudicate rights according to controversial views of the law. The future threatens more of the same.
IPr interests are eager to have a say in controlling that tool.
I believe it is critical that the organization leave the legal system to work out these questions on its own. And it crucial that the organization resist efforts by others to use its power to advance particular visions of what the internet should become. My priority in running for the board is resist efforts to change this tradition. I do not believe in that idea. By preserving the at-large membership process, we will assure that this organization will not become the tool of those who need power to get their view of the net to take hold.