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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.)"

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  1. Re:Now we're done for by photon317 · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Corporations took over the entire Internet long ago. The current crisis is that completely evil corporations with very short-sighted profit motives are beginning to push out the well-rounded corporations that understood how important the Internet's ideals are.

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  2. This is a shock why? by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Let me get this straight. A group of nut monkeys with all the power and money voted to keep everyone else out.

    I am just shocked out of my bean on this one. Paint me stupid but what did you expect?

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