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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.)"

6 of 25 comments (clear)

  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. 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. 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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  4. Re:drawn? by gmhowell · · Score: 4, Funny
    Does anyone know how these reps. are to be drawn? Since member voting appears to have been repealed
    Simple: they check the Illuminati master list of technical, business, government and non-profit organization members.

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  5. Unanimous by judd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where was Auerbach?

  6. 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