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US Relaxes Control Over ICANN
An anonymous reader tips news that the US Dept. of Commerce has signed an agreement with ICANN to end their current oversight responsibilities and allow more input from the global community. "The move comes after European regulators and other critics have said the US government could wield too much influence over a system used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Those critics have complained, among other things, about the slow rollout of Internet addresses entirely in languages other than English." The US will still be involved; every three years, ICANN's work will be evaluated by a committee, one member of which will be from the Dept. of Commerce.
I disagree. The US put the majority of the work into establishing it, so why should they share control with anyone else? The tech has been spread world-wide, so there is absolutely no reason other communities can't develop their own network and route DNS requests accordingly similar to how the phone system works. It's just that everyone wants to piggy-back into the original system because it's the default, there's already so many people using it, and it'd be a ton of work to setup another system.
You do understand that US as a nation haven't been going for long in historical scale? Most of what US has been based on now we're developed in europe before england shipped there (and robbed the land from native americans).
So if you're gonna come up with the "US developed it and it shouldn't be used elsewhere", atleast think about where US tech has come from.
Obama is a realist. He knows that he's got to give up some control over the international ventures if he's going to expand his micro-management of every fuckin' US citizen's personal life.
His predecessor thought it was the government's job to tell me who I could or couldn't marry. I've actually never seen much in the way of micromanagement of people's lives from the D's, but the Republicans make it a point of making the most personal decisions in my life for me. If Republicans have their way, I can't even make personal decisions controlling my own body.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Hmmm...which is worse? "Total surveillance societies like Great Britain" where the people know they are under surveillance as opposed to total surveillance societies like the USA where the people don't know they are under surveillance?
e.g. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70910 ;-)
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