[Our problem had been making this easy for people to understand ...]
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Easy To Explain — WHY ICANN is dangerous
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3472522/posts
ICANN essentially ‘governs’ the TLDs [top level domains].
Each TLD [such as .com or .org] runs its own ‘phone directory’.
And ICANN controls them through ‘Registry Operator Code of Conduct’.
Right now ICANN is subject to US law, mainly because its headquarters are in the US. But if ICANN’s contract isn’t renewed, it’s free to move overseas [which it secretly plans to] and modify its ‘Registry Operator Code of Conduct’ for each dot-com or dot-org or ...
... theoretically even our military websites.
From October on through to a republican president, there’s no telling how much the White House will coordinate with ICANN in the name of ‘no controlling legal authority’.
[In other words — Hillary will have her gatekeeper if she wins, and Obama might too for a few months.]
Great post Arthur,and the complexity of all this is why talk radio can’t get around it more. Rush could but has not so far.