On: Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

[contingencies]

However to those in the know, it is associated with greed under the guise of "service to the public".

Don't forget a US-centric internet, far more readily controlled and manipulated by that state than any other.

[snowwrestler → contingencies]

I have heard exactly zero accusations that ICANN is doing anything to control or manipulate the Internet for the good of the U.S. None of the recent revelations about Prism, tapping cables, etc. have anything to do with ICANN.

[marshray → snowwrestler]

When you hear other countries talking about "US control over the internet" they're largely talking about ICANN.

But I agree that they're not "The Man" per se. Though I assume they're co-opted to the core.