[At-Large] A Comparative Study of Internet Censorship

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All my good friends,

  Is, and has ICANN and now the ALAC with it's "Internal mailing
list", guilty of censorship?  It appears so...  Has "Wikileaks" exposed
and/or reintroduced the Censorship problem.  It appears so...
Is the ALAC mimicking the "repressive regimes" a la ICANN, or
will the ALAC recognize the error in such ways?  Who knows...
But let me be clear, the "Wikileaks" case and the censorship
concern was borne of see:
http://commons.globalintegrity.org/search/label/wikileaks
and seems that there are some other powers that be whom
are involved that may be politically embarrassed...  None the less,
we all should be shunning any form of Censorship, most especially
the ALAC.

To wit:
Visit the home of the watchdog group Global Integrity for a breakdown
of online censorship: "Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we
http://commons.globalintegrity.org/2008/02/internet-censorship-comparative-study.html

put a US court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site
Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: This is unheard of in the West,
and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good

thing it doesn't work very well... The whole event seems to encapsulate
the
constant criticism of governance in the United States: that the
government
has been captured by corporate interests, and that the world-leading
rule
of law and technocratic mechanisms in place can be hijacked to serve as
tools for narrow, wealthy interests.

Regards,

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