[IFWP] American Colonial Expansion in Cyberspace (was Re: Central Authority)

[Michael Sondow]

Milton Mueller a �crit:

> Just as the countries that industrialized
> first were able to leverage their technological prowess into imperialism and
> subordinate the yet-developed world, so this ICANN/WIPO process represents an
> attempt by established powers to gain formal political power over the Internet.

A precise analogy. More than an analogy, in fact, because ICANN as
created by the USG is the means for United States colonial expansion
in cyberspace. Registry and registrar accreditation policies are
colonial administrations; the registries and registrars themselves
are colonial governorships; and the WIPO rules for domain name
registration are citizenship and passport regulations in the
American trade empire of cyberspace.

And as in the British Empire of the 19th Century, only English will
be permitted as the language of colonial administration and imperial
dominance and control.