[ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates]

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Ralf,

one of the biggest problems I have with folks thing ICANN is Internet
governance is that folks like to think that ICANN could be used as a
platform for launching a ban on some type of electronic communication.

thinking that any entity can censor anything that originates from another
network or government is short sighted. If any entity could adopt such a
policy it could not be implemented.

For example lots of folks would like to censor SPAM or UCE. there have
been several attempts to limit UCE at wholly owned ingress points of
networks and it still can't be done.

Again I would like to point out how the notion of Internet Governance is
flawed and we all should work to educate folks that ICANNs central role is
in the Technical oversight of some Internet issues that deal with names
and numbers. the notion that censorship is even a topic of discussion or
that ICANN could adopt much less implement a policy is asinine.

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Ralf Möbius wrote:

> Good morning,
> 
> after a long discussion about democracy and the dangers of political and
> industrial domination of the net, I would like to ask you a few qestions
> about internet and censorship.
> 
> 1. Do you think there should be a general censorship in the www, filtering
> certain contents ?
> 
> 2. If so, isn`t the danger of censorship higher than any influence of
> extremist contents?
> 
> 3. Isn`t it sufficient, that the criminal law and terms of resposibility for
> web-contents of each country ensure that contents in the net follow a
> minimum standard of what we call civilization?
> 
> Best regards, Ralf Möbius.