Relevant to the cause?

[Collin Kurre]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for getting this conversation started, Farell! Jumping in to
share some additional context useful for our Stakeholder Group:

The USA may have chosen to avoid regulation up to this point, but many
countries have done the opposite. Efforts to regulate content are
particularly relevant to the DNS, as there are an abundance of
"voluntary" or legally mandated DNS filters currently deployed by ISPs
around the world. [0] It's difficult to gauge the extent of DNS blocking
as many of these agreements are not made publicly available for scrutiny
by consumers or civil society.

At the end of the day, DNS blocking is a half-baked solution. Often
times it's merely an inconvenience for people seeking banned content
[1]. At best it thwarts access to allegedly unlawful content without
addressing the offense in itself. Moreover, the widespread
implementation of new protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) or -TLS (DoT)
by US-based companies like Google, Cloudflare, and Mozilla will likely
disrupt this status quo, once again raising questions about
centralization and jurisdiction.

So far, regulatory measures floated to address this evolving technical
landscape generally range from bad to worse in terms of freedom of
expression and access to information. These include blocking IP
addresses to prevent users from connecting to entire servers, or
deploying allowlists instead of blocklists. These issues aren't yet at
the forefront of discussions within ICANN, but we should be aware of
them to anticipate changes on the horizon.

Best,
Collin

[0] See for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kingdom#ISP_Default_network_blocking

[1] Consider The Pirate Bay's infinite mirrors: https://proxybay.ist

On 13/05/2019 22:53, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>
> I agree with Dorothy.  ALso extremely relevant to us as we volunteer
> in this MS group:  was the decision not to regulate the Internet a
> sound one?  If not what needs tweaking and how?  Not so much to do
> with the DNS, it is true...but any kind of monopoly breakup may have
> some relevance to us.
>
> cheers Stephanie
>
> PS the future does tend to take its own sweet time to reveal
> all....look at how long it has taken people to realize what FB is
> doing with all our data!
>
>
> On 2019-05-13 17:24, dorothy g wrote:
>> This is beyond privacy, it is to do with hegemony and control without
>> accountability. It is to do with how we should organise our digital
>> future. As to influence, the future will reveal all.
>>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:50 PM Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
>> <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Sent from my mobile
>>     Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>>
>>     On Mon, 13 May 2019, 22:32 dorothy g, <dgdorothydg at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:dgdorothydg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Thanks Farell,  There are many excellent articles on this
>>         topic but from a co-founder this will have a lot of influence.
>>
>>
>>     SO: While I do not downplay the privacy issues, I don't think the
>>     article of a co-founder who already cashed out of FB would add
>>     the much significant influence expected.
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:03 PM Farell FOLLY
>>         <farell at benin2point0.org <mailto:farell at benin2point0.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>             Dear All,
>>
>>             I found this article about facebook and privacy
>>             particularly interesting. It has nothing to do directly
>>             with domain names but It can educate more on how and why
>>             users should take more care about their data and how it
>>             is processed.` Also, it pointes out the danger of
>>             monopoly versus a multi stakeholder approach.
>>
>>             https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html
>>
>>
>>
>>             @__f_f__
>>
>>             Best Regards
>>             ____________________________________
>>
>>             (Ekue) Farell FOLLY
>>             NCUC Rep. to the NCSG Policy Committee
>>             linkedin.com/in/farellf <http://linkedin.com/in/farellf> 
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>>         -- 
>>         Dorothy Gordon
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dorothy Gordon

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Collin Kurre
Digital Program Officer
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