[CPWG] NYTimes: The .Org Mirage
John McCormac
jmcc at hosterstats.com
Thu Dec 5 18:35:55 UTC 2019
On 05/12/2019 18:22, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> It's not wrong, but its context is disingenuous.
>
> At its superficial level it's fear-mongering (you can't automatically
> trust a domain just 'cause it's in dot-org, a characteristic common to
> almost all TLDs).
>
> At a deeper level it's an attempt to discredit (or at least dilute) the
> massive and nearly universal opposition to the PIR conversion by
> non-profit organizations.
>
> On the whole I consider it a FUD piece.
It is worse than a FUD piece. It is knocking copy with token people who
might appear to have some expertise but are, in reality, non-expert. It
is classic negative PR. All that's missing is the "Some people say".
Regards...jmcc
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