Re: [ga] Fw: ICANN's Karl Auerbach responds to Joe Sims over .kids domain

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

Head in the sand?  How apt for this post!

Wake up.

Eric

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> Hello Rick,
>
> Friday, July 06, 2001, 5:00:03 PM, Rick H Wesson wrote:
>
> > Karl,
>
> > aparently .info, biz, and all the rest of the new gltds are labels for
> > content; and since certain new tlds have restrictions it seems .kids
> > content censoring is in-line with the rest of icann's previous work.
>
> I don't see content restrictions.
>
> As a matter of fact, info has NO restrictions.
>
> The others do not have "content" restrictions, just entity
> restrictions on who can qualify to register, not on the content of
> anything they do at that domain.
>
> A .kids domain as proposed by this outrageous Congressional
> suggestion, would in effect have to limit itself to a domain for
> websites only, and have some form of content policing.
>
> This would be tantamount to censorship, practically forcing anyone who
> has content which is suitable for under-18 crowds to register a .kids
> domain, and duplicate the "under-18 suitable" content, or be at great
> risk of those individuals not being able to access their sites.
>
> This is not, and should not be, the role of the DNS, to be a tool for
> censorship and self styled content police.
>
> Of course, this bill needs to be put into perspective.  None of these
> two congressmen's previous "anti-ICANN" efforts have met with the
> approval of their fellow committee members.  Further, the
> overwhelming and vast majority of bills, particularly special interest
> bills such as this one is, die in committee, never reaching the house
> floor.
>
> In committee, the congressmen and congresswomen would be educated on
> why this plan of theirs is a bad idea, and why they should not ever
> consider creating TLDs by congressional fiat, and the real harm to the
> international scope of ICANN if they try and force it.
>
> This bill is not meant to get a .kids TLD, it is meant to harm the
> credibility of ICANN, by forcing ICANN to do something at the US
> Congress' bidding, and thus cause further harm to the international
> feelings about ICANN.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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