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Obama administration joins critics of ICANN that oversees Internet (washingtonpost.com)
7 points by cwan on March 1, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> "One concern is that if the U.S. decides Syria is behaving badly, then they could make all Web sites using Syria's country code domain - .sy - point to freedom of expression sites, for example," said Avri Doria, an ICANN group chairman. "Countries say, 'How can we subject ourselves to that?

Besides the fact that we haven't done this to any of the Arab countries currently in revolt, I haven't heard of anything like that happening to countries we've been in actual shooting wars with.




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