Government committee encouraging internet “dictatorship”
09 August 2010
Fionn O'Raghallaigh, London
A Governmental Advisory Committee letter to Icann has been condemned as advocating “Chinese-style dictatorship”
In a letter by its chair Heather Dryden on August 4 to Icann chair Peter Dengate Thrush, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) repeated concerns it outlined during the Icann meeting in Brussels in June about the morality and public order test for new gTLDs.
Dryden wrote that the premise for the test, based on international instruments such as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, “is flawed as it suggests there is...
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