Keep The Core Neutral: protect free expression in domain name policy at ICANN

[mandy]

Plans are being made to create many more top-level Internet domains (like ".com" or ".net"). In the near future there will be a lot more of ".anythingyouwant" domains. But special interests want to censor these domain names for moral, political or commercial reasons ... or any reason at all!

Don't let them set up a censorship system at the very core of the Internet! Sign our petition and join our coalition -- let your voice be heard at ICANN, where this policy is being made right now.

more info: http://www.keep-the-core-neutral.org/

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Of particular interest is a recommendation which limits the approval of domain names based on standards of “legal norms relating to morality and public order.”...

Another concern is that ICANN’s approval or rejection of new domain names gives ICANN too much power in determining what constitutes “morality and public order.”

Critics argue that such determinations are better left to individual governments, as ICANN may not be best equipped to make universal judgments on a subject that varies from region to region...

full article: http://beatblog.typepad.com/melon/2007/0...ica-2.html

[BellisimaJ.]

Plans are being made to create many more top-level Internet domains (like ".com" or ".net"). In the near future there will be a lot more of ".anythingyouwant" domains.

Do we really need more?? Wouldn't that dilute the value of existing domain names-------those currently held for investment purposes?

Of particular interest is a recommendation which limits the approval of domain names based on standards of “legal norms relating to morality and public order.”...

WTF?  

[eclectica]

Of particular interest is a recommendation which limits the approval of domain names based on standards of “legal norms relating to morality and public order.”...

:blinkie:

[jezebel]

“legal norms relating to morality and public order.”...

Which country's legals norms are they planning on using?

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=16103.msg64257#msg64257 date=1188235728]

“legal norms relating to morality and public order.”...

Which country's legals norms are they planning on using?




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And, why should any group be allowed to define "morality" for the entire friggin' planet, or even for one country, for that matter?!!!