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

[Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> wrote:


> Hi,
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> 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.
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> And perhaps this will become a motivation for countries to establish
> themselves as freedom of information havens.


This would be a great idea. But wouldn't a country that blocks domains be
also capable of blocking internet access to freedom of information havens?
As the Internet moves more into the realm of mobile phones, the power to
grant or deny access at the moment largely rest with the phone companies,
who are more likely to go along with the Governments.

I am in India, I have no problems at the moment. But in an imaginary
scenario when my phone company does not like me, how would I access
Internet?

Sivasubramanian M


> 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.
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> On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:16, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > 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.
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> > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5334/135/
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> > Because of the location of so many gTLD operators within the US, this has
> serious implications beyond its borders.
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> > 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.
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> > - Evan
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