Veni and all, Perhaps your conclusion is correct, perhaps not. In any event, ICANN does begin with the US Constitution and ends there to a great extent for now anyway as ICANN is a California non-profit corporation in the US. Ergo US values, laws, and Constitutional requirements apply to all that ICANN does, decides, or is. Veni Markovski wrote:
As long as we hear people for whom the main document created in history is the 1st ammendment to the US Constitution, there will be cross cultural problems.
For me nonIregistering .gonazi or .hatejews is quite reasonable; for the Americans this is against the Constitution. For me shutting down web sites promoting the above mentioned domains is a good thing, but at the same time such web sites, in Bulgarian, exist and can not be shut down, because they are on US web servers.
The world does not start and end with the US Constitution, and I somehow don't think this is bad.
Veni
On 6/27/08, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
You don't need to think very long to know that words exists that are so ridden with hate that they do not deserve to be hard-wired into the fabric of the Internet.
Perhaps, but I also know that they're already there. (Try any sexual, racial, or religious slur in .com, and you'll find it's there.) I also know that there are strings that spell a benign word in one language, and an indecent word in another, and that public morality means very different things in different countries.
Let's watch and see how this process works before we condemn it.
We know that ICANN's track record with beauty contests has been dismal. Does anyone really expect that they'll do any better with ugly contests?
R's, John
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