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

Your people may be, I don't think your government cares much for it.

unlike other nations that censor their citizens and their use of the internet

I don't think anyone in the western world does these things except maybe Germany.

but it's not just countries from the western world that control this international board

Besides, this ICANN is not a country and therefore has no citizens to censor.

It's not just China that controls the board either.

it can effect everyone's use of the internet though

and it's not only China that's on that board

Well, it's been this way for a while and we're still talking about how shit North Korea is.

So I don't think I need to be worried.

middle eastern countries, China, Russia and others are a part of it

it may not be a crazy important issue, but the worry over the situation is still kinda there for me and others

I know all these things you're telling me but I see no cause for concern.

Canada censors its citizens. Anything that is considered "hate speech" in person or on the internet, meaning anything SJWs don't like, is a felony in Canada and people have been convicted on it many times.

the US's free speech and freedom of expression is enshrined in law, that's why it was preferable to have it privately owned by them

in my opinion anyway

As much as the rest of the world makes fun of the US, the rest of the world is living in the dark ages when it comes to free speech.

yo can i get a link to the clip at the beggining repzion's "re:trumpocalypse" video?

It's not that far back in the log in the NSFW channel.

thanks

Scroll up.

👍 got it ty

Uhhh, Canada can arrest people for hate speech even if *no one* could control the internet.