Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Ben Charny reports that federal officials leaned on ICANN to reject the .xxx domain the other week.
One reason why it’s so easy to reject things like the U.N.‘s demand for a piece of “Internet governance” is because their aims are so transparently political. ICANN remains technically under U.S. government authority, but the government hasn’t exercised that authority much. Perhaps until now.
If true: bad thing.
(HT: Free2Innovate)
Jim Harper / Jim is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. Prior to becoming a policy analyst, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the House and Senate.
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