[governance] Why the unilateral US control over generic TLD is dangerous

[Roland Perry]

In message <20110201160824.GA726 at nic.fr>, at 17:08:24 on Tue, 1 Feb 
2011, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> writes
>A good example. A Web site was legal in its country, but may be
>illegal in the US. Since the domain was a .org, the US governement can
>delete it at will

Not commenting on the merits of the specific case, but would it be more 
acceptable if that kind of "deletion" was done by order of a court in 
the USA (rather than the government or the police acting unilaterally), 
which an organisation based in the USA would probably want to comply 
with, even if not served via a law enforcement agency?

If so, then it's a clash between jurisdictions and the ability of 
various parties to argue in those different jurisdictions whether or not 
their rights have been infringed.
-- 
Roland Perry
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