European Union Asks US To Free ICANN

An anonymous reader writes "Viviane Reding, Information Society Commissioner of the European Union, is calling for the United States to hand over control of ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers). She said that the organization running ICANN needs be free of control by a single nation, and rather controlled by a private entity and governed by multiple nations. ICANN, headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, was created in 1998 to oversee a number of Internet related tasks. Reding said, 'In the long run, it is not defendable that the government department of only one country has oversight of an internet function which is used by hundreds of millions of people in countries all over the world.'"

Comments

Re:This is a good time to ask for stuff like this

[bucky0]

Can you do two things for me?

1) Define fascism
2) Tell me what obama's doing that meets the definition.

Thanks.

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[gadlaw]

You know, developed by the United States Military, run by Americans - you all climbed aboard the train and now you want to be the Engineer/Pilot of the thing cause since now that you got on the train it must be your train. Typical way of thinking there Bureaucrat Trash Monkeys. :P I fart in your general direction.

Re:Uh, no

[fredclown]

Making people stand, depriving them of sleep, and making them think they are drowning is not torture no matter how much the media wants you to believe it is. Now having your bones broken, having your fingernails ripped off, having people jump on your stomach, or being mutilated ... that's torture.