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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. Now we're done for by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This has been coming for months. Soon, AOL, Microsoft and Oracle will own the domain name business and we'll all be screwed.

    Want a personal website? Think again. If it's not in the best interests of a commercial Internet, it ain't going to happen.

    And we can throw any sustainable hope of p2p file sharing out of the window too. When the corporations take over the Internet entirely, there won't be a damn thing we can do about it.

  2. drawn? by Sauron23 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Instead, the 19-member board of directors will be drawn from representatives of technical, business, government and non-profit organizations.
    Does anyone know how these reps. are to be drawn? Since member voting appears to have been repealed. Cough, corporate bullshit detector, cough cough...
    Drawn, sounds like a lottery. I'm guessing chance has nothing to do with who sits on the board.
  3. Unanimous by judd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where was Auerbach?