Moving Net Control From ICANN to Governments?

a whoabot writes "The BBC has a piece by Bill Thompson suggesting that "control" of the internet should move away from corporate groups(ICANN and the Web Consortium) and to governments. We previously had an article on ICANN and the UN World Summit on the Information Society. One quote: "We allow images of consensual sex in our cinemas, but not images of bestiality or child abuse. Why should the net be any different?" My personal answer: because the internet should not be another TV or cinema, it should be a free, user-as-peer and user-controllable media; a "reversible" media, as Baudrillard would put it; not user-as-consumer."

Comments

Give control to Switzerland

[Anonymous Coward]

or if not possible, any Scandinavian country. They have a very good culture of privacy. Plus nobody will ever tell the Swiss what to do or bomb them because everyone has their money there.

Bestiality is cruelty to animals

[tjstork]

Jesus Christ people, if you hang your free speech arguments on the right to show videos of daddy fucking a dog, you will lose those rights.

Re:adam smith

[JonnyCalcutta]

If other countries don't like that fact they are free to setup their own Internet and connect to each other.

Duh! They have, its called the Internet.

Re:MOD PARENT wayyyyyy UP

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:FAILURE BOY SEZ:

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, but some women do have cocks.

Re:Silence the critics!

[Andy Smith]

Oh come on! Vain? There are only *two* pictures of him in each article now! There used to be three.

Re:No, because...

[CaptainAmerica1941]

Gee, that's the last time my dogs come to a sleepover at your house.

Re:government control

[mrogers]

When you want to send a packet across international borders you'll need a form stamped by the information ministries of both countries and signed by both the sender and the receiver (in triplicate of course). And there will be a customs charge for every packet set.

Result: the MTU will increase from 1460 bytes to 1.46 GB, and the quickest way of reading a foreign website will be air travel.

Re:Sealand is weak

[nineoneone]

that's right, touch Sealand and we'll be in Washington by sun-up. The English

Re:Use a little common sense (and Google).

[Zeinfeld]

Three posts and we are into bestiality.

Is it any wonder that Slashdot's bid for the ICANN contract was rejected?