Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates] Re: [ga] bodacious-tata[s].NET

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Joop Teernstra wrote:
>When more restrictively oriented cultures realize that blocking access to
>such sites doesn't work, they will demand their own policing rights, to
>"take down" such domains under the ICANN flag.

Yep. That's bad. It's necessary to teach the political leaders in such a case.

>When regionally elected directors will be questioned on their stance on
>Freedom of Speech, we are going to see some surprises.

Sure? The same goals are achieved by different approaches. Last monday a
privacy meeting took place in Kiel, Germany. We concluded in one workshop
that the American 'Freedom of Speech' requires the very similar mechanisms
and laws as the German 'Datenschutz'.