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The world is running at full speed towards a dystopia where private companies are more powerful than entire countries.



Which appears to have been one of the main aims of WTO and most international trade deals over the last 30 or so years.


What if these countries pass laws to require ISPs to rewrite the SOA for the .amazon domain and point it to an alternate root controlled by the ACTO?

Morocco banned Google Maps after they displayed a border with Western Sahara. Now if one requests a Google map of Morocco from within .ma, they get a version without the border.


Like the Dutch East India company?


> Like the Dutch East India company?

No, not like that. The East India Company had independent military power. ICANN does not.




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