[Chapter-delegates] PIR and wikileaks.ORG

[Vittorio Bertola]

Il 03/12/10 19:52, Veni Markovski ha scritto:
> It has nothing to do with PIR, but of course, how many people know it?

For what is worth, I've stumbled into threads of discussion in Italian 
on Facebook where people actually believe that the domain name was taken 
down by ICANN and that the Wikileaks affair is a proof of how bad it is 
that the US control the Internet through ICANN.

Also, at least here in Europe, people would expect regulators to step in 
whenever private parties do something bad (and a service provider taking 
offline a domain name for political pressure is definitely bad) and 
defend registrants from this kind of situations.

I'm sure that ICANN will get some public backlash from what is happening 
- and maybe ISOC too, if someone starts drawing the links between .org, 
PIR and ISOC. So a public stance by ISOC could be appropriate, but on 
the other hand I see the difficulty of saying anything on a matter on 
which opinions seem very polarized, so perhaps it's better not.

Ciao,
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