Reply #13: It's about control of the name space. [View All]

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The furriners want to decentralize control of the name space,
the US wants to keep it in silicon valley. I don't really see
how it would affect issues of censorship much, in the sense that
I don't see how China, say, is not in control of it's delegated
namespace now, so it would get no NEW ability to control content
from this change. What it would get is lots more names, so to
speak, and a lot more latitude to arrange things to suit itself.

Without cooperation there is a possibility of a loss of coherence
in the global namespace, and of fragmentation of the internet.