[90246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri May 12 01:48:09 2006
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 01:47:31 -0400
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4464042A.4060201@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 11:42 PM 5/11/2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>David Schwartz wrote:
>> The major problem with this is that many other governments
>> have "dangerous
>>ideas" that they'd also like to be easily able to identify and isolate as
>>well. If the United States gets to corral porn, why can't China corral
>>Democracy? Why can't Russia corral advocates of "terrorism" (which some
>>might consider independence).
>> I think it would be an incredibly short-sighted policy on
>> the part of the
>>U.S. government to restrict the Internet in the hopes of controlling things
>>like gambling and pornography. The precedent of government isolating
>>"dangerous ideas" will be adopted by many other governments and we will have
>>no sound ideological grounds to oppose.
>
>Excellent points.
>
>I question then why we even have a need for any TLDs.
Why do we even need domain names at all outside our own entities for network
management, mail,and a few minor services now that we have google?
-M<
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