ICANN Meeting off to Shaky Start in Uruguay

JoeGee writes: "Reuters is reporting that the quarterly meeting of ICANN got off to a very shaky start in Montevideo, Uruguay on Friday September 8th. Protesters claim that ICANN's domain registration policies are creating a "digital divide". A special telephone party line created for members who could not be present at the meeting went unused. ICANN seems to be internalizing the turmoil that has surrounded the non-profit corporation since its inception in 1998."

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Digital divide

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Alan Levin, a South African activist who ran unsuccessfully for a board seat last year, pointed out that of the roughly 40 million registered domain names, only one-fifth of one percent were held in Africa, and the vast majority of those were held in just one country -- South Africa.

"It smacks of potentially legislating the digital divide," Levin said.

Bildt took offense at the charge. "There are limits to the amount of rubbish I can take," he said. "Close to half the world has never made a telephone call. I would not tear down the telephone system of the U.S. because of that."


Well gee i wonder why South Africa holdes the majority. The rest of Africa is off in a civil war and is too buty to care about the internet, and evel less about that telaphone line set up for people to call in. They need to go kill the white facists pigs. Bah to a democracy, we must controll the speech of our people, which means no internet.

The internet began in 1998???

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...non-profit corporation since its inception in 1998...

Ok, so what went on before 1998??? Utter chaos? No... I recall having used the web back in 1994... So then I must ask... why can't we fall back on the pre-ICANN-watchyamacallit days???