call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne
Hi,
I an a disbarred historian working on the
history of Fitzroy and milkbars to help understand things that effect the
whole world! I also don’t understand what ICANN does, but we could always
ask them. Someone once described democracy to me as hanging out with a
bunch of cretins who you don’t really like but you will try and get on with
then anyway in the name of some bigger picture. Can’t we hang out with them
when they come here? A Palestinian also told me that ICANN’s twelve
employees will become a world government really soon. Perhaps after they
string up all the Arabs, and torture all the Hindu’s, and free all the
Chinese from the tyranny of being Chinese. Anyway, trying not to be a
devil’s advocate here, but before we spiral into some narrow determinist
argument about DNS being the new world order, lets contextualise what
ICANNDY does in a larger circulation of ideas and power. Am I missing
something?
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