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The major threads so far, from most comments to fewest:

"Save .org": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677

"Why I Voted to Sell .ORG": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656960

"ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626677

"ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557779

"Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold to private equity firm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592297

"Private Equity Is Going to Ruin the .Org Domain System and Screw Nonprofits": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582622

Did I miss any?

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I posted the original many months when .ORG price caps were being removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20263561

My thread didn't get much momentum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664582

But the linked article has pre-filled form letters you can use to send complaints to the IRS, and a copy of a letter I sent to the AG in CA and VA, which may provide some inspiration for anyone who wants to write a similar letter.

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/29/dotorg.html

What if all three organizations don't care if they lose their 501(c)3's? A billion dollars is a million dollars a week for 20 years, it can pay for a lot of kickbacks.

".org TLD was sold to private investor": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539144

Here are a few more I posted that failed to get much traction:

Ethos/PIR Funded and Led a Scorched Earth Campaign Against Communities at ICANN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659409

The .ORG Sale Is a Radical Departure That Puts the Internet at Risk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659278

Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659240

This submission by almostbasic offers an excellent overview:

.ORGanized Takeover – a timeline of the ISOC, PIR & Ethos Capital Deal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630179

Why are you openly spam posting so many threads on the same topic? We only need one.

Some of those were both interesting and new to me.

I am sure that is true for others.

From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... :

"March 2019:

ICANN receives 3,300 comments uniformly opposed to the change and 6 in favor of removing price caps, and sides with the 0.2% minority.

May 2019:

PIR responded to the comments with an open letter that said, “We are a mission-based non-profit, and would never betray the trust that you have put into .ORG and us.”

On 7 May, Chehadé registered the domain for EthosCapital.com.

On 13 May, ICANN decided to lift the price caps anyway.

On 14 May, Ethos Capital was incorporated as a new investment firm founded by Brooks. Ethos Capital has two staff: Brooks and Nora Abusitta-Ouri, a former ICANN SVP who later worked for Chehadé and was also a classmate of Chehadé."

thank you for this illuminating timeline, in the fog of all their PR it makes everything quite clear as to their true intentions.

Vint Cerf did a lot of good but he also worked real hard to undo his legacy over the past decade or so. Unless I'm really mis-understanding him I keep finding myself on the opposite side of what he's arguing for.

If this goes through, I hope this is all he is remembered for.

Like Hans Reiser.

I think there is some light between 'murdered his wife, mother of his two children' and 'sold out'. But Cerf was one of the greats and to see him fall so far is sad and depressing.

Everyone has a price.

That's beyond the pale. Please don't do internet hell here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What other example can I draw from? Pragmatism is all I was going for.

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