RE: [soac-mapo] Parting shots from the US government

["Andrei Kolesnikov" <andrei@xxxxxxxx>]

This is very bad example for our (Russian) parliament / power 
enforcement. Because for many years we've been telling them 
stories about civilized world, technical difficulties and 
acceptable practices of self-regulation of internet
community. 
Russia is not the country of information freedom at
traditional media. The internet is the last bastion. 

--andrei 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:27 PM
> To: soac-mapo
> Subject: Re: [soac-mapo] Parting shots from the US government
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have seen this as a really good motivation for other countries to
> have local registries and registrars so that people can avoid the US
> and other countries who are behind Information curtains.
> 
> And perhaps this will become a motivation for countries to establish
> themselves as freedom of information havens.  Who knows, some the major
> US registries might even think of relocating. Not likely, but time for
> people to start appealing for them to do so.
> 
> a.
> 
> 
> 
> On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:16, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Though our work is largely done here, I thought participants might
> want a look at this article about American plans to legislate its own
> domain-level blocking system.
> >
> > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5334/135/
> >
> > Because of the location of so many gTLD operators within the US, this
> has serious implications beyond its borders.
> >
> > Maybe many of you already know about this, but I'm also sure than
> many people don't. It's just another example of how any hopes within
> ICANN that our internal efforts would curtail country-level blocking
> are simply naiive.
> >
> > - Evan
> >