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>US to hand over ICANN to UN ICANN is an independent organization, and DNS will not be controlled by the UN. This is actually a fear-mongering narrative being
by rm999 10y ago
>US to hand over ICANN to UN
ICANN is an independent organization, and DNS will not be controlled by the UN. This is actually a fear-mongering narrative being repeated by American conservative news sites. Obama's administration promised control of DNS would not be handed over to the UN, which would make it susceptible to political pressure from e.g. authoritarian governments.
The plan is for ICANN, a non-profit company located in California, to work with the private sector to steward DNS.
- helthanatos 10y agoConservative news sources? Those sadly don't exist. This misattribution of ICANN is incredible though.
- hellogoodbyeeee 10y agoWhat is Fox news? The wall Street journal?
- zkhalique 10y agoThey're leftie socialist rags compared to breitbart and nationalreview
- helthanatos 10y agoThey aren't very right, yet people accuse them of it without reading anything.
- hellogoodbyeeee 10y agoI'm sorry, if you don't think fox news has a strong right bias, then your perception of conservative is skewed way to the right and you have lost touch with what a moderate political opinion is in our country
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- marcoperaza 10y agoLegal control of ICANN will be ceded to a board that is ultimately chosen by the UN. Given that the US is pretty much the only country with anything approaching absolutist free speech protections, this is very concerning. Majorities in the UN support banning the "defamation of religion" and other things considered to be hate speech. What you're saying is directly contrary to the facts. Given that you're directly contradicting the facts presented in the BBC article, you should provide evidence.
- marcoperaza 10y agoI'm mistaken that it's being directly handed over to UN control, but the government advisory panel does have some power and there is no limits on what ICANN itself now decides to do. They are now free to reorganize themselves however they see fit. In order to get around antitrust law, they would have to put themselves under some kind of governmental control, such as by joining the UN. I don't see any good reason to risk anything. US control was working perfectly fine.