On 8 October 2010 02:48, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com> wrote:
Will Internet be Internet if Muslim countries ban sites with porn content, Hindu countries ban sites that have anything to do with beef or veal, Jewish countries ban sites with pictures of fish without scales and Christian nations ban sites from every other religion ?
You speak as if this hasn't already started. There are many countries in the mideast that already have a blanket ban on the ".il" TLD, regardless of content. The censorship of major second-level domains in China is well known -- whether the motivation is religious or political is irrelevant to me, as (in my personal opinion) in this context religion *is* politics. And even the bastion of freedom is making its own censorship plans<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5334/135/> .
The network of networks wouldn't be Internet if it becomes a network of national networks. ccTLDs, National Internet Exchanges and IDN TLDs are the greatest threats to Internet.
Then we must allow hundreds of gTLDs to blossom in their place :-) - Evan