The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of a key component of Internet governance.
The department said it would renew its contract with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers for one year. ICANN administers the Internet's domain-name system, through contracts with the companies that sell website names and addresses. Commerce has overseen ICANN since the organization was created in 1998. Last year, the Obama administration said it planned to transfer ICANN oversight to an unspecified group of international stakeholders by September 2015.
Critics of the plan have expressed concerns that it may open the door to influence by foreign governments that aren't committed to Western principles of free expression, and may want to impose different rules for administering the Internet in different parts of the world.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 18 2015, @08:32PM
Yes, that's exactly what they mean.
Tell people to take up Jihad in youtube videos, and they'll murder the fuck out of you. Broadly speaking, I see the people most in favor of that kind of action as being the same people asserting that free speech is absolute in other situations.