Replying to FIS: the nazis of skiing?

So, I just read the Ted Ligety FIS article...

https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/44350.0/Ted-Ligety----Op-ed-pieces

this quote in particular got me, 'At the most recent FIS meeting they discussed punishments for athletes speaking out against them. I quote an excerpt from that meeting, “The Council agreed to develop a “Code” to deal with cases of improper behavior that fall outside the competence of the competition jury to augment the existing rules, such as blasphemy on social networking sites or bringing the sport into disrepute.”'

... for FIS to compare speaking out against them as "blasphemy" reminds me of the same mentality as the conceited fucks who cared about the length of my poles.

I had no idea how tyrannical, one sided, and unreasonable they are. His examples are just a few out of 1000s of complaints about FIS you can find online. Search FIS on newschoolers, you won't find anything positive about them.

I really don't know who makes up the committee, it could be a bunch of gorillas on unicycles for all I know. But I am curious to know, how did they end up as a governing body in skiing if they are consistently ignoring what the athletes are voicing? How did they get to be the authority on all regulations with no checks and balances?

Free skiing was born out of skiers rebelling against the rules and regulations of the competition scene at the time. So all these years later, when "freeskiing" started having it's own competitions, the same governing body that we wanted to get away from is regulating the newschool comp scene. Who the fuck decided that this was a good idea?

NS is one of the biggest voices in skiing, if we don't want FIS to over regulate and saturate our beloved sport, is there anything we can do as a community to change the direction of competition skiing? FUCK FIS is a sticker I've seen, but never really understood... now I'm a full supporter.

thoughts/ comments?