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https://ssl.cpsr.org/pipermail/governance/2005-Aug ust/003455.html
On August 11, the U.S. Commerce Department
responded to a campaign by conservative relligious
groups favoring online content controls by telling
ICANN to reconsider its agreement to create a new
.xxx top-level domain for sexual content.
ICANN complied by delaying its process.
The US Commerce Dept's intervention raises
profound issues about how the Internet is governed.
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FACT: The U.S. Government operates several servers that it owns. Via those servers, they publish
THEIR view of the root-zone. They are free to do
that and people are free to listen or not. More
and more, people do not listen, even Americans.
ICANN wants it both ways, they want to be funded
and endorsed by the U.S. Government, yet, want
to thumb their noses at their funders and
endorsers, and leverage that in international
forums where there are many that want to destroy
Americans. It is a dishonest academic game.
The so-called "intervention" by the U.S. Department
of Commerce illustrates that freedom of speech
still exists. That is good, not bad. ICANN and
the ISOC want to take away that freedom and
replace it with their soviet-like system based
on academic cronyism. That is not a system based
on free will and free speech. That is a system
where the academics and legal sharks determine
who "the right people" are and those are the
people who get to speak and dominate all forums.
They are the ones funded to travel to the
expensive face-to-face meetings where "the
Party Line" is the only line, besides the line
at the free buffet.
Education is a key and the academics appear to
be concerned that "religious groups" are becoming
better educated and that the U.S. Government
is also beginning to see the light. Academics
want to dismiss consumers and prevent them from
becoming educated (very ironic considering the
business academics claim to be in). Academics
want to step in to create MORE layers of
regulatory regimes, such as ICANN, to allow
them to dictate consumer's choices.
The U.S. Government is one consumer and a large
consumer but not the only consumer. If the
U.S. Government decides one direction, some
consumers might follow and some might go in the
opposite direction just to be different. Academics
only want one direction, their direction. That
leads to a least-common-denominator world which
discourages innovation, creativity, debate, etc.
As people now see, the only people at ICANN are
now those that nod the Party Line and walk like
zombies from one venue to the next.
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