At 11:42 PM 5/11/2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
David Schwartz wrote:
The major problem with this is that many other governments have "dangerous ideas" that they'd also like to be easily able to identify and isolate as well. If the United States gets to corral porn, why can't China corral Democracy? Why can't Russia corral advocates of "terrorism" (which some might consider independence). I think it would be an incredibly short-sighted policy on the part of the U.S. government to restrict the Internet in the hopes of controlling things like gambling and pornography. The precedent of government isolating "dangerous ideas" will be adopted by many other governments and we will have no sound ideological grounds to oppose.
Excellent points.
I question then why we even have a need for any TLDs.
Why do we even need domain names at all outside our own entities for network management, mail,and a few minor services now that we have google? -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations hannigan@renesys.com