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Already in 2015, Emily Taylor warned [1] that ICANN could become the Internet's FIFA -- a small organization with great power that doesn't answer to any governm
by tszyn 7y ago
Already in 2015, Emily Taylor warned [1] that ICANN could become the Internet's FIFA -- a small organization with great power that doesn't answer to any government. Here we are. A private company run by former ICANN people will be given the right to collect massive rent from a locked-in client base on a public resource.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/icann-internet-us-government https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/icann-int...
- C1sc0cat 7y agoIt was already obvious in the 2000's the analogy with FIFFA is a good one as its the some of the playbook ICANT are using holding meetings in out of the way places and leveraging small countries to maintain power. BTW I was a member of poptel who owned the .coop registry.