[governance] Big Porn v. Big Web Ruling Could Spell Trouble for ICANN / was Re: new gTLDs

Pranesh Prakash pranesh at cis-india.org
Tue Sep 11 14:14:25 EDT 2012


parminder [2012-08-21 13:05]:
> I am
> speaking about applicability of the jurisdiction of US courts on all ICANN
> decisions. And since US courts apply US law, it is the applicability of US
> laws over all ICANN decisions, which is also called 'oversight'. And I dont
> like anything that calls itself a global system/ infrastructure to be
> subject to laws that I do not have an opportunity to participate in making.

Which law would you like ICANN to be subject to?  After all, given that 
they are a brick-and-mortar organization, they will have to subject 
themselves to one nation's law or another's.  Which one should it be, then?

~ Pranesh

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Pranesh Prakash
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Centre for Internet and Society
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