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ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence

aychamo writes "The ICANN (the company that distributes most of the world's internet addresses) is denying that it gives the US government too much control over its operations. For instance, the US was the only country able to stop ICANN from using .xxx for pr0n domains, instead of .com. The ICANN is planning events to show that it is not US influenced." From the article: "ICANN's board of directors appears to favor a proposal for a new set of Internet addresses that end in .Asia, which would more easily identify Asia-focused Web sites. Approval of the new top-level domain could come during the ICANN board of directors meeting on Sunday. One other major development this week involves progress toward allowing the use of non-English language characters when steering a Web browser to a particular site. ICANN is now exploring a proposal to open Web browsers up to dozens of the world's other alphabets. Actual tests of just such a system are now in the works, Twomey said. "

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  1. Re:What good is it without enforcement by emptycorp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's face it, ICANN is ran by the same people that run the world. The NWO is real, and every presidential speech in the last several decades have proven it. Bush Sr. said it outright and his son calls it "spreading freedom" or "spreading democracy". Let's forget the ignorance in the statement "spreading democracy" which is that they are spreading a constitutional republic and not democracy, and instead focus on the world control. The internet is in the control of the NWO, it always has and always will be whether you like it or not. They control the telcom companies, they control all big businesses, they control all of the biggest and "best" universities, and they control just about everything around the world.

    You think you have freedoms? HA! I laugh at your ignorance! When was the last time you told your local police to go fuck themselves and get off your property? Where's the freedom of speech and property ownership they claim we have? What about those eminent domain cases we seem to have forgotten? You have the right to do anything you want until they tell you to stop. Failure to stop can result in death in many cases, whether "legal" or not. They control the major governments, the armed forces, the media, the largest companies, all forms of law enforcement, the education they want to serve you, how you live, what you say, what you do, even how you think and spend your own earned money.

    The greatest injustice in this world lies in the fact that 6.4 billion people are letting it happen.

    The greatest enslavement in mankind is coming, will you be ready to accept the system you let them build?

    A wise man once told me, the only freedom you have is the freedom to do what they tell you to do.

    Don't believe any of it? Pull out your wallet and look at your driver's license, grab your license plate, go look at your marriage license, your gun license. Notice how everything is licensed to us to be used how they let us, and any other use is "wrong". They are the same people who say any kind of hacking is "illegal" and "wrong or bad". They hate innovation that does not live and breath control. It's time to WAKE UP and realize the world we are living in. There are only 10's of thousands of them and billions of us. We have them overpowered, outnumbered, and one day, I can only hope, outsmarted.