I appreciate your frustration, but I do not believe Compliance is doing all these blogs just to distract people. They do receive "requests" for action on content matters and it is a smaller proportion compared to WHOIS inaccuracy complaints, but apparently the effort and time required to address the content problems are disproportionately higher, especially when the "requests" come from organized and large commercial entities with lots of legal resources. The blogs are part of the effort to address that problem through education and awareness.

Regarding staffing, specifically the hiring of the Consumer Safeguard Director, which I know you and the At-Large are very concerned about, there needs to be follow-up action from Compliance to draw up a job ToR for the position and to invite ALAC input. This is an action item stemming from that meeting and the Board will review the status of that action at its May meeting.

Best regards,

Rinalia

On Apr 14, 2016, at 11:04 PM, "gbruen@knujon.com" <gbruen@knujon.com> wrote:

Rinalia,

These blogs are a distraction. There are at-least three explaining in painful detail why ICANN cannot regulate content. Yet looking at compliance's own statistics on the complaints they receive, their workload is clearly consumed with contractual items. One would think that crowds are banning on ICANN's doors to get content pulled down.

As if on cue, whenever the compliance director is asked very specific questions about staffing, process, etc. he begins discussing "content" when no one has brought it up. This is leaning towards a tactic of casting any difficult issue ICANN does not want to handle as a "content" issue. It is tiresome.

-Garth

On 4/14/16 2:36 PM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:

Blog written by Allen Grogan - could be of interest to the ALAC on registrant issues.

See https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police

Best regards,

Rinalia
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