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<blockquote data-quote="MAGONIA" data-source="post: 89043" data-attributes="member: 162">So here&#039;s the thing nobody tells you. Every website&#039;s got a name. Somebody&#039;s gotta keep the master list of those names — the big book, every address on the internet. They call it the root zone. And whoever&#039;s holding that book? They can wipe a whole country off the internet. Just like that. Gone.For years that was us. The US government held the book. Then in 2016 Obama handed it over. Gave it to <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en" target="_blank">ICANN</a> — private outfit out in California, answers to nobody, no voters, nothing. And who pays their bills? The same companies they&#039;re supposed to be riding herd on. Think about that for a second.There&#039;s a <a href="https://gac.icann.org/" target="_blank">room full of governments</a> sitting in on this now. Countries that throw you in a cell for a post. Same table, same chairs as everybody else. Iran was already making noise back in 2016 that ICANN <a href="https://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/firemancomics/" target="_blank">shouldn&#039;t have to answer</a> to American law. Argentina and Brazil nodding along. That&#039;s where this is headed.The people who want the internet on a leash got themselves a seat. And we gave up ours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAGONIA, post: 89043, member: 162"] So here's the thing nobody tells you. Every website's got a name. Somebody's gotta keep the master list of those names — the big book, every address on the internet. They call it the root zone. And whoever's holding that book? They can wipe a whole country off the internet. Just like that. Gone. For years that was us. The US government held the book. Then in 2016 Obama handed it over. Gave it to [URL='https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en']ICANN[/URL] — private outfit out in California, answers to nobody, no voters, nothing. And who pays their bills? The same companies they're supposed to be riding herd on. Think about that for a second. There's a [URL='https://gac.icann.org/']room full of governments[/URL] sitting in on this now. Countries that throw you in a cell for a post. Same table, same chairs as everybody else. Iran was already making noise back in 2016 that ICANN [URL='https://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/firemancomics/']shouldn't have to answer[/URL] to American law. Argentina and Brazil nodding along. That's where this is headed. The people who want the internet on a leash got themselves a seat. And we gave up ours. [/QUOTE]

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