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[ NNSquad ] DHS/ICE vs. ICANN
DHS/ICE vs. ICANN http://j.mp/euQaAB (Google Buzz) - - - Greetings. In the vein of making lemonade when you have lemons, it occurs to me that the upcoming damage from ICANN's TLD expansion madness may have an unexpected solution -- the folks at DHS/ICE. Here's the simple plan. All we have to do is convince ICE to confiscate domains faster than ICANN can issue TLDs for new ones. Given how ICE managed to shut down 84K innocent domains in one fell swoop and tarnish them with c-porn allegations for site visitors, this should be easy as pie for those guys, especially since due process isn't required! After all, much of the world is going to block dot-ex-ex-ex from day one anyway. And probably dot-gay. And who knows what else ... All it should take is a few allegations of illicit Disney videos hosted on (or even just linked from) a TLD, and ICE will be out at the registry ordering them to flip the domain "off" switch. In fact, to make this even easier, perhaps the government should have direct access to DNS databases so that they can terminate domains without all the muss and fuss of dealing with the registries and registrars at all! Or is that already in pending legislation? Gotta go check that again. It's all so much simpler when you just toss Internet Freedoms out the window. Phew. Problem solved. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com