Here’s copy-paste info to inform newbies:
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ICANN is NOT a ‘phone book’, DAGNABBIT!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3473527/posts
Too many people are confused.
Let’s cut through the lies and make this as simple as ‘ABC’.
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So if ICANN and China team up to dominate the internet, some people think that we could fight back with firewalls. A balkanized internet.
But the boundries would be both physical and intellectual.
All the titans of the internet: google, amazon, facebook, and twitter — they don’t need the ‘free speech’ zone of the internet anymore. They could unite the rest of the internet where tyrants want to censor free speech.