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US Control Over Core Internet Systems Called Into Question

Next week, in Rio, an international meeting will get underway concerning the internet and its current status. The itinerary for the discussion includes spam, free speech and internet access costs. However, it seems that American dominance in the governing of the internet is more likely to be the unofficial topic for debate.
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1:10 AM on Sun Nov 11 2007
By Haroon Malik
8,103 views, 110 comments

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ICANN Testing Domain Names In Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic and Other Alphabets

ICANN, the governing body of domain names, says it will test out web addresses using Arabic, Persian, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Hebrew, Japanese, Tamil and both simplified and traditional Chinese. I guess this means that the inevitable collapse of all language into a bloated English hodgepodge is on hold. While it's nice for people to get domain names they can actually read, it pisses me off, because I like navigating non-English sites by their forced use of Roman-alphabet tags. Ironically, as machine translation gets better, the use of more and more languages and alphabets on the web might not really detract from its universality. But I can't help thinking there's something scary in this decision, scary, that is, for monolingual America. [Yahoo/AFP]

10:10 AM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Wilson Rothman
1,386 views, 13 comments

Latest by isayisay: The fact that this bothers anyone bothers me. Why do I care if Bulgarians and Russians can use Cyrillic to go to Bulgarian and Russian websites? Ради бога! more »