Message from @Jim
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It's cancer
I am not American so I don't know
Trans Pacific Partnership.
Do you know TTIP?
Ah
It's the same thing.
Yea
It was an international agreement that would have given multinational corporations direct control over the internet.
Abbreviation threw me off
Yeah no
Allowing them to censor people.
I know
well, ICANN is already a thing
Like literal cancer.
I am going fucking hack fucking everything if that happens
it's not in our hands anymore, the internet that is
Like the free speech thing just barely scratches the surface of how bad the TPP is.
I know
You know how badly YouTube handles copyright? And now it gets so badly abused?
It'd be like that. Only worse. And on the entire internet. Not just YouTube.
I know
Terrible
It's worse though. It allows for a special international court where multinationals can file criminal charges against anyone regardless of where they live.
You can literally go to jail and there's nothing your country's government can do about it to intervene.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, /ˈaɪkæn/ eye-kan) is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.[1] ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the central Internet address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. The contract regarding the IANA stewardship functions between ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the United States Department of Commerce ended on October 1, 2016, formally transitioning the functions to the global multi-stakeholder community.
so yeah, this was already a thing, it's out of the US's hands now
Regulation of the internet in any way shape and form is bad
I don't think people are quite right about how terrible ICANN is.
thanks Obummer
They don't actually regulate the internet. They just keep the registry.
Leave it to individual ISP's and websites to self regulate
^that sounds bad too
The worst they can do is make your website mysteriously disappear. And I don't think they can do that without significant backlash.
the fact that they can do so is the problem
So could the US government back when they had it. But they didn't.
ICANN's primary principles of operation have been described as helping preserve the operational stability of the Internet
yes, but with an international board this could create issues that wouldn't occur with it under our ownership
You know, from a non-US citizen do you have any idea how crazy the idea is that one country controls the internet's register?
that may seem bad, but we're a country that at its roots values free speech