and the US

What is tpp?

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

What @Emma said, among other things.

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?

Yes

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