[governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

[Milton L Mueller]

A recent IGP blog dealt with this argument. 
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/10/20/4660721.html#comments 

I might add that the anti-new TLD argument is one that has been heard and aired repeatedly over the past ten years. New TLDs do not enjoy complete consensus (what does?) but within ICANN every conceivable pro and con argument has been heard and taken into account since 2006, and has led to an incredible complex regime. These last-ditch efforts to stall or stop show a lack of respect for ICANN process, and for bottom up policy development.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl at cavebear.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:42 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain
> (TLD)
> 
> Although I often agree with Lauren, in this case I do not.
> 
> His argument is essentially this:
> 
>   - Thing X can be used for ill purposes (among good purposes)
> 
>   - Therefore thing X must be banned.
> 
> Let's apply that to the internet:
> 
>    - The internet can be used for financial scams and ugly content.
> 
>    - Therefore the internet must be banned.
> 
> Oh that is so much fun, let's try it again:
> 
>    - Airplanes can be used to drop bombs.
> 
>    - Therefore airplanes must be banned.
> 
> We can use that silly logic over and over again and we'd end up in a
> world in which everything from medicine to automobiles to food is
> banned.
> 
> The faux logic forgets that almost everything is a balance of good and
> bad.  And it also forgets that quite often the approach for dealing with
> the bad is to do the obvious: deal with the bad and not ban the thing in
> which the bad is ensconced.
> 
> 	--karl--
> 
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