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Soviet Union TLD Owners Snub ICANN
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has up a post about ICANN's latest decisions about country-code TLDs. The body is making an effort to tackle the problem of Yugoslavia's .yu outliving the country by over a decade but is far from getting its way with the Soviet Union's domain .su. Around 2,500 new .su sites are created every year despite ICANN ordering its retirement — the disgruntled .su registrars have announced an 80 per cent price cut in the price of .su domains in response. 'It makes the much-publicized wrangles over the ".xxx" domain seem tiny by comparison. And it convinces me of the need to reevaluate the existence of the US Dept of Commerce-backed non-profit organisation that is ICANN. The current squabbles are petty compared to the diplomatic arguments that TLDs could cause. An international body like the UN would be a more appropriate overseer, surely?'"
No, but siphoning billions of dollars dedicated to "aid" or "development", raping the shit out of every AIDS ridden African woman it's "peace keepers" are supposed to be there to protect, rubber-stamping Syrian and Lebanese aggression in PLAIN VIEW of those same, vaunted "Peace Keepers" and "Inspectors", and having a Human Rights Council with China, Cuba, Syria, and Sudan (where the practices of Female Genital Mutilation and, just for kicks, slavery, are still rampant) go a REAL long fucking way towards making them corrupt or incompetent though. It's cool, bro. I know that you got all tingly because you got to make that TOTALLY edgy and deep "ZOMFG IMPERALIZSM LOLZ" argument that you heard in your freshman poli sci class, but you made a shitty arg. Disagreeing with the United States, however totally cool and emo and hip and edgy and whatever else it is you kids use to refer to the shit you do to try to get laid, does not make a body good. The act of disagreeing with the United States may in itself be good, but if it's done by a bunch of raping thieves, they're still a bunch of fucking raping thieves.
The UN, as with all world-government bodies, fucking sucks. They're corrupt, they're a money sink, and they haven't done a fucking single bit of good since they were created. The last thing I want to do is to give the powers ICANN has to ANY government agency, let alone the fucking UN.
95% chance if you find someone anti-UN, it's an American. The basic thing to keep in mind here is that Americans and diplomacy do not mix. Only in popular politics you can argue that the UN hasn't done anything but cost money. If you're only digging slightly deeper, you know, getting to know the truth instead of comparing dicksize... Perhaps they need a full scale war on their own soil too to appreciate diplomacy in general and the UN in specific. For a country that has never seen any action for its own civilians they sure seem to know why, when and how foreigners need to see it. Something else about bureaucracy: it's the reason democracy works in the first place. THE WHOLE POINT is that things take time. Distribution of responsibility and all that. Protection against extreme elements... etc.