ICM registry to create a triple X domain has been rejected by the ICANN board.

Votes are as follows - 8 to reject, 5 to accept, 1 abstention

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Source: ICANN

I am writing to express the Australian Government's strong concerns over the decision by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board to reconsider the application from ICM Registry, Inc (ICM) proposing the creation of a new .XXX sponsored top level domain (sTLD).

The Australian Government remains strongly opposed to any measures that may result in an increase in the amount of illegal and offensive content on the Internet.

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Source: AlterNet: Web Censorship for Dummies

Given all the bad porn on the Internet, I guess it's only fair that there should be some truly terrible ideas about stopping porn on the Internet too.

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Source: Pacific McGeorge School of Law

On Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, 2007, the Center for Global Business and Development?s Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure will sponsor a symposium, ? I Think I Can, I Think ICANN: Regulating the Internet . . . or Not.? It will examine the structure and supervision of the Internet. Topics include assessment of the work of ICANN; the results and impact of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that has raised radically different alternative approaches to regulating the Internet; possible East-West and North-South tensions over Internet access and governance; the significance of the Internet for human rights and for economic development; and, the future of Internet governance post-WSIS.

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The Cibervolunteers Foundation invites you to attend e-STAS, Technologies for the Social Action Symposium. An international and multi-stakeholder event whose main objective it is to promote the use of new technologies for social action.

The event will feature key international speakers such as: Mari Kuraishi President of Global Giving Foundation, Stuart Gannes Director of the Digital Vision Program at Stanford University, Allen Gunn of Aspiration Tech, Carlos Alfonso of RITs, Raoul Weiler European President of the Club of Rome and Bill Lester of Engender Health, among others.

The Symposium will be held from the 22nd to 23rd of March 2007, in Seville, Spain. Come join us, we would like you to share your experiences with us.

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