Who owns the internet?

As the 38th ICANN conference reaches a close, new resolutions have been decided upon by the representatives of the ICANN constituency. This multi-stakeholder bottom-up organisation, as ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom likes to call it, publicly debated and decided on matters as diverse as the introduction of .XXX, enabling Chinese internet users to enter addresses in their own language, and even whether or not the chairman of its own board should receive payment for his work. Does this governance model work? Can and should all stakeholders really be invited to share the responsibility of organizing the internet? Should they also be asked to police it? We spoke with several stakeholders and representatives as they attended the conference in Brussels. This is the EURid ICANN Report : Day 5.

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[longfootbuddy]

of course government has to regulate the internet.. if they let people put any info they wanted on it, they might revolt against theyr tyrannical governments...god forbid people be free to information

[MissMyea]

this is awesome... thnx 4 posting this!