Stymieing Controversy over Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) and Other Internet Governance Decisions with Content Neutrality
Nafees Uddin · bepress Legal Repository · 2013
causes of little people" 7 by enabling (1) resistance movements to coordinate, assemble, and mobilize their efforts; (2) individuals and organizations to monitor and report heretofore obscured atrocities; and (3) international actors to remonstrate injustices in foreign nations.8 Unlike the unprecedented 9 Internet blackout in Egypt, 10 this article is about Internet censorship at yet another, perhaps more insidious, locusthe website-formation phase.Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) 11 are part of the technology that govern which websites are allowed to exist in the first place, 12 and they are the latest arena in the battle over control of the Internet's infrastructure.This article argues that the concept of content neutrality can stymie controversy over specific issues like gTLDmanagement and the broader issue of Internet governance at large.This article first addresses how the Internet is a tool for organization and mobilization.Second, this article outlines the background of Internet governance and the underlying technology behind the Internet naming system.Third, this article examines the recent regulations regarding the 7 Kreimer, supra note 5, at 121.