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ICANN Excludes Plebes, Officially

Posted by timothy on from the velvet-rope-cast-in-iron dept.

Nofsck Ingcloo writes: " Reuters is reporting that ICANN voted on Friday to exclude ordinary Web surfers from its board in a move critics say allows mainstream interests to tighten their grip on the online world. ICANN unanimously passed the resolution at its quarterly meeting. (The last /. article I saw on this only mentioned it as a probable coming attraction.)"

3 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Now we're done for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    yeah and have you noticed a suspicious amount of the companies on the ICANN board have links to the RIAA and the MPAA. Do the research yourself its all there.

  2. big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    So what? Screw 'em, we don't need ICANN, there are plenty of alternatives like openNIC for example.

  3. BBC on ICANN by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Recently the BBC has had rather a lot to say about ICANN on this subject here are three articles from the last few days.

    Net body accused of bullying tactics

    Net body under pressure

    Reforming the running of the net