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'''Ayden Férdeline''' ~~is a fellow with the Mozilla Foundation. At ICANN, he represents~~ the [[Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group]] (NCSG) on the [[GNSO]] Council.

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'''Ayden Férdeline''' represented the [[Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group]] (NCSG) on the [[GNSO]] Council.

After participating in the [[NextGen at ICANN|NextGen@ICANN]] program in October 2015 at [[ICANN 54]] in Dublin, he joined the NCSG. He was appointed to the Policy Committee of the NCSG in January 2017 by the Executive Committee of the [[Non-Commercial Users Constituency]] (NCUC), and was subsequently elected to the GNSO Council as Councilor from [[ICANN 60]] in Abu Dhabi.

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He holds a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics.

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~~== Controversy ==~~

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Since 2019, Férdeline has been on a personal crusade to discredit a child protection organization, Prostasia Foundation, putting forward the view that the Foundation's approach, which prioritizes the prevention of child sexual abuse, is harmful. In July 2019, PayPal terminated Prostasia Foundation's account on the basis of false allegations made by Férdeline; an action which has been criticized by human rights group Article 19.<ref>https://prostasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Prostasia-case-and-Paypal-submission-December-2019.pdf</ref> In May 2020, he made a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alleging that Prostasia Foundation is using its income or assets "to support illegal or terrorist activities." In the same month he also called for informants who could help him to disrupt three grant applications that the Foundation had made.<ref>https://twitter.com/ferdeline/status/1263661013049716741?s=20</ref>

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Since Férdeline has no background in this subject area and has provided no evidence to substantiate his claims, some have speculated that the campaign is a personal vendetta against fellow Internet governance expert [[Jeremy Malcolm]]. Malcolm himself however denies having any previous bad blood with Férdeline, and has suggested that there may be a political motivation behind the campaign.<ref>https://twitter.com/qirtaiba/status/1264201874770505728?s=20</ref> __FORCETOC__

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