Stupid. This will go down in history as one of the dumbest abdications of US power since Jimmy Carter gave up the Panama Canal.
It doesn’t look good. Some more comments from the article:
[Mueller also takes issue with the absence of any protection for free expression, a constitutionally guaranteed right that he argues the US government should support.
“The problem with ICANN is it has always been exempted from the First Amendment and that remains a problem with ICANN,” he said.
ICANN, he said, can interfere with freedom of expression by censoring the domain name space and regulating the use of the space indirectly. In his blog on the subject, he criticized the Commerce Department for “its longstanding indifference to basic civil liberties concerns.”]