Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () renesys com>]

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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