[article] We Need To Save .ORG From Arbitrary Censorship By Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear all,

EFF has published a useful resource today outlining some human rights concerns associated with the sale of PIR to Ethos Capital:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/we-need-save-org-arbitrary-censorship-halting-private-equity-buy-out

What’s the harm in this $1.135 billion deal? In short, it would give Ethos Capital the power to censor the speech of nonprofit organizations (NGOs) to advance commercial interests, and to extract ever-growing monopoly rents from those same nonprofits. Ethos Capital has a financial incentive to engage in censorship—and, of course, in price increases. And the contracts that .ORG operates under don’t create enough accountability or limits on Ethos’s conduct.

Best wishes,
Ayden Férdeline
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