[governance] control and censorship - revelation?

[shahshah at irnic.ir]

Vittorio,
I don't think the issue here is censorship or democracy. The issue is
whether ICANN is consistent in its application of a well-defined process
in redelegation matters. The cases of .kz and .iq show that ICANN caves in
to governmental pressures. These cases go beyond anything demanded even by
the most recent set of 'GAC Principles'.
Siavash

> David Allen ha scritto:
>> Re the re-delegation of the Kazakhstan ccTLD, which has now shut down
>> a comic's website:  "Why? The president of the [newly appropriated
>> Kazakh ccTLD manager] said it was so the comic 'can't bad-mouth
>> Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name'. If you want an example of
>> government-owned and run censorship on the internet, you'll be hard
>> pushed to find a clearer example."
>>
>> According to the story, this change was made in aid of the US Iraq
>> adventure.  Yes, there is the bit that ICANN still retains some
>> 'judgment.'  But it appears that even if the supplicant is a
>> strongman state, if it is still providing bases for Afghan operations
>> ...
>
> Do you think it is ICANN's role to judge whether a government is
> democratic or not, and deny governments access to their country's TLD if
> ICANN thinks they are not democratic?
>
>> McCarthy says in effect, the US government has handed censorship of
>> the net to other governments of the world.
>
> I'm sorry, but while I would like the Internet not to be censored at
> all, I prefer the Kazakh TLD to be censored by the Kazakh government,
> rather than by the US government.
>
> After all, if each TLD is policed by a different government, you can try
> to pick the TLD whose policies you like more - something you can't do if
> a single government controls the entire DNS.
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