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Kieren McCarthy on the Import of 2005

Kieren McCarthy on the Import of 2005:


2005:The year the US government undermined the Internet: "On 28 July 2005 at a special [ICANN] board meeting ....consciously and for the first time, ICANN used a US

government-provided reason to turn over Kazakhstan's internet ownership

to a government owned and run association without requiring consent

from the existing owners. The previous owners, KazNIC, had been created

from the country's Internet community...."


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