I agree it's intensely annoying. People like Cele........ World Resort, the most recent abuser are deliberately flouting the local (ie UK)laws. Yes I mean you Alex and Samira!
You neither have a god given right to act as Outlaws, nor to talk over me when I explain that you are deliberatly flouting UK laws, whether you sit in the UK, US or Australia!
What would the outcry be if people outside the US deliberately broke US law wrt US residents? If that is not reasonable why should the reverse be?
As commerce via internet or phone goes increasingly global we need legal rights to be respected not according to the country of the initiator, but the country of the recipient.
and I like the idea above about using an airhorn!
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I agree it's intensely annoying. People like Cele........ World Resort, the most recent abuser are deliberately flouting the local (ie UK)laws. Yes I mean you Alex and Samira! You neither have a god given right to act as Outlaws, nor to talk over me when I explain that you are deliberatly flouting UK laws, whether you sit in the UK, US or Australia! What would the outcry be if people outside the US deliberately broke US law wrt US residents? If that is not reasonable why should the reverse be? As commerce via internet or phone goes increasingly global we need legal rights to be respected not according to the country of the initiator, but the country of the recipient. and I like the idea above about using an airhorn!
it was Al Gore - he's am American!
It's the US or the UN.
European countries (and doubtless others) have done much to both develop and exploit the Internet. But in the end they too are being denied control.
I don't, per se, care who controls it, as long as I have - even only a billionth - of a say!
Most governments exhibit flawed (and even sometimes able) people, democracy is how we get the problems fixed.
So the US is welcome to control ICANN - just as long as they give me (a non US citizen)a vote!
We need to move on globally from "no taxation without representation", to "no authority without representation"
and yes why not use the internet to make the UN accountable to the people not the politicians!