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

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?"

Comments

Re:Alternative proposal

[Anthony_Cargile]

Not to be redundant, but that's basically the same thing I said above only I suggest a P2P distribution system so as not to break compatibility with the already widely used legacy WAN infrastructure. We are running out of IPv4 address pretty fast, so whatever the solution - use IPv6/IPv8 (coming soon I'm sure). Encryption in addition to an enablement of a P2P internet distribution system that really uses olde HTTP/HTTPS as a backend would solve many of the net issues we now have.

As stated, while not perfect the layer = 4 protocols are pretty much set in stone for too many applications than to be replaced, so just using a new, encrypted and widely distributed and supported front-end (like Tor/Privoxxy, but more transparent and supported) would be a decent solution if not the answer we've needed. It's anonymous, neutral, encrypted, random (TCP-wise), widely distributed, backwards-compatible, and eliminates current concerns with the current internet.

Re:Honestly, I'm not threatened.

[Hordeking]

"Social conservatives" in the US are essentially Christian Taliban. They don't have the power to act with the savagery of Taliban (abortion clinic bombers excepted) but never forget that people who believe in primitive superstitions only function in the modern world by compromising their beliefs.

Hate to break it to you, Eric Rudolph was captured 5 years ago, and he'll be in jail for the rest of his life.

Don't get too cocky. Christians have been under attack for years in this country to the point where many are even scared to talk about it anymore, as if it were embarrassing. So much for being Taliban-like.

And yes, I am a Christian.

When they have power, they revert to type.

Funny. I thought the same thing about liberals. Largely godless, living according to what they can get from others, and forcing their opinions upon everyone. When they have power, they revert to type.