The Outlaw Net: Opposition to ICANNs New Internet Order Enda BrophyCarleton UniversityMass CommunicationOttawa, Canadaenda_b@email.com It is difficult to picture ICANN, an obscure entity with an odd acronym, as anything more than a footnote to the rise of the Internet. But a year ago it would also have been hard to imagine violent protests disrupting the WTO meetings in Seattle. The world is changing. Old boundaries are being eroded by commerce, transportation and communications. And government is adapting, taking new forms to accommodate the new reality. In this sense, ICANN is an important harbinger of the controversies to come. (Jonathan Koppell 2000) ICANN has serious structural problems. Hacking ICANN might be the next logical step. (Andy Mueller-Maguhn, cited in Kettmann 2001b) The Internet is a stunningly complex new terrain, as varied and multi-faceted as the millions of human beings that make it real. Some claim the network is simply unmanageable - a chaotic space, subject to an organizational anarchy that stems from its famously distributed character. The rhetoric, in many cases, is fiercely overblown. This article is not about a self-contained, autonomous or pastoral cyberspace, but of a realm of struggle that continues to be characterized by the clash
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The Outlaw 'Net': Opposition to ICANN's New Internet Order
Brophy, Enda
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 30, 2002
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