Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal government enjoys over Internet addresses and the master database of top-level domain names - a legacy of the Internet's origins years ago. The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of .xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield.
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2005-06-29
Please note that I am not in any way asking this rhetorically or to imply that the US should (or should not) have control. I'm just trying to see how such a move would benefit the Internet and it's users.
It's the same as with monitoring email traffic to capture criminals. While not posing any real trouble to people, people will still be against it, because it infringes privacy.
The fact that the US, just a country, controls stuff that directly affect normal people around the world, without them having a say in it, is just wrong.
Before the disaster with the .xxx domain, I didn't give a damn about all this. While I couldn't give a rat's ass about this .xxx domain, the fact that the US government decided against it with political/religious reasoning is just unacceptable.
Now it's the .xxx domain, what will Bush & Gov. ban next?