An Internet Giveaway to the U.N.

trent shipley trent.shipley at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 19:36:42 MST 2016


In worst case fork the code! Balkanize the internets.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:22 PM Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

>
> The article states in part "Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek
> to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust
> exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part
> of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally.
> So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a
> “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”".
>
> This could be really bad.
>
> What is the solution?
>
> Keith
>
>
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