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		int_19h on June 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet F... The other option is not giving it over to some random country. As I understand it, the other option would be giving the assignment of top-level domains to ITU or some similar agency within UN, which would then delegate .gov and .mil and other things to US.

wavefunction on June 9, 2016 [–]

The same people who would have problems with "some random country" would have even more problems with the UN.

I'm generally less critical of the UN, but I would agree that the UN is pretty much the last body that should be invested with any sorts of power.

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