Out of time, but still, crossposting here. Please note, this is not my point of view. Regards from Portugal, Nuno Garcia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lauren Weinstein <[log in to unmask]> Date: 23 June 2011 20:54 Subject: [ NNSquad ] Radio Free Europe: "ICANN Has Censorship" To: [log in to unmask] Radio Free Europe: "ICANN Has Censorship" http://j.mp/lwRlbZ (This message on Google Buzz) - - - http://j.mp/k5cxjL (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Article) "Once you start to create very fine-grained TLDs you create a very simple way for governments to enforce blocking and censorship on those TLDs and [can] require that companies or particular types of organizations operate out of particular TLDs. That's much harder to do when you have a few general and generic ones like .com and .net," Weinstein said." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([log in to unmask]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com