Nothing would have happened unless the U.S. government sent that letter.

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I think the U.S. realizes in some way that they're picking fights they don't need to have.

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If ICANN caves in to this pressure, it reveals to the world that it really is just a plaything of the U.S. administration, and the U.S. reveals to the world that it is able and willing to abuse its power over ICANN.

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[When the first part of the summit meeting took place in Geneva two years ago, many participants feared that the United Nations itself, through the International Telecommunication Union, wanted to govern Internet issues.] Today, ... the ITU is off the table.

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When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't typically mean, 'Let's protect human rights, individual rights, let's guarantee the freedom of the Internet,'.

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