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

[Siavash Shahshahani]

> Milton Mueller ha scritto:
>> You can come up with all kinds of after-the-fact rationalizations, as
>> Vittorio does, but there is only one thing that has changed between June
>> 2005 (when the ICANN Board voted to approve the application) and last
>> week (when they voted to kill it) and that is the strong and sustained
>> objections of governments, opponents of pornography and adult
>> webmasters.
>
> Actually, the most significant change in these years was that a relevant
> part of the adult entertainment world, which initially supported the
> proposal, changed their mind and started to actively oppose it.

To put this piece of debate into a more accurate form, the crucial factor
here was the postponement of the final decision itself, and that came
about only because of the letters from GAC and USG.
Siavash
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