[governance] ICANN Board Vote Signals Era of Censorship in Domain Names

[Milton Mueller]

>>> goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au 04/03/07 10:53 PM >>>
>I've not read the proposal, so it's probably outlined there.

Might be good for you to do your homework

> But if it's ONLY to be pornography and related, under whose standards?

>America's? China's? Saudia Arabia's?

The answer is: ICM Registry's standards. Which anyone is free to
disregard or adhere to as they see fit. I don't see why that is an
issue. DNS is flexible and capacious enough to have a TLD for Arab
erotica, any number of other flavors...even Australian brothels. ;-)

The odd thing that seems to be happening here is that you've equated
minting a TLD with the creation of some kind of compulsory global
standard for defining pornography. That confusion exists only in your
own mind. 

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