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CP80's Cheryl Preston Suggests "CyberSecurity" Group At ICANN

Posted by timothy on from the one-frustrated-astronaut dept.

Beezlebub33 writes "A new petition has been filed under the GSNO (Generic Names Supporting Organization) of ICANN to create a new constituency the CyberSafety Constituency. Existing constituencies include 'Commercial and Business,' 'gTLD,' 'Registrars,' 'Non-commercial,' etc. The new proposed one on CyberSafety is in the 'interest of balancing free speech and anonymity with the values of protection and safety in developing Internet policy within ICANN.' If that doesn't raise red flags all by itself, consider that the person submitting it is Cheryl B. Preston. She's listed in the petition with the organization Brigham Young University, but she's part of CP80. She's suggested limiting content on port 80 to the 'right' things, and other stuff can go on other ports, so it can be appropriately filtered by the authorities. Guess who gets to decide what goes on which ports?"

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  1. ICANN is Accepting Public Comments on Petition by RDGROSS · · Score: 2, Informative
    Members of the general public and encouraged to submit comments to ICANN until 5 April on this proposed constituency from CP80/Robert Yarro. See: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#cybersafety

    Comments on this petition should be sent to ICANN via the email address "cyber-safety-petition@icann.org" mailto:cyber-safety-petition@icann.org

    Yarro's anti-porn crusaders are currently bombarding ICANN with form letters supporting this censorship initiative. See: http://forum.icann.org/lists/cyber-safety-petition/mail3.html

    Here is more information on this issue from IP Justice and the Internet Governance Project: http://ipjustice.org/wp/2009/03/19/robert-yarro-and-his-anti-porn-crusaders-march-on-icann/ http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/3/17/4125801.html

  2. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you ever lived in Utah, you'd know they not only want to eliminate "evil" pornography, but also enact all sorts of laws to force everyone to follow LDS guidlines and join their church.

    In the nineties, during a speech to BYU, one of their leaders declared everyone over 25 and not married a "menace to society." Later that year, BYU "off-campus housing" revised their contract so that only students were allowed to live in "off campus housing." Since most single people in Provo go to BYU, this meant nearly all housing just became unavailable to anyone who was single but not going to BYU or UVSC. A few years later, the Provo city council passed "parking laws" which they only enforced against single people. Anyone who had a roommate south of BYU, but not in BYU housing suddenly found they were in "violation" of the law.

    Oh, and they would only rent individual housing to married people. You were basicly run out of the area (no housing) if you didn't conform to the marry by age 25 declaration.

  3. Re:Censorship. by virg_mattes · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's one point you messed up here. No songs were "banned" from the radio. ClearChannel put out a list of songs that "may bother listeners" but there was no edict not to play them, and a good number of the songs on their list got airplay on ClearChannel stations, so there didn't seem to be issues with punishment for running them.

    Virg