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Comment Re:Uh, no (Score 1) 503

Just fyi, from your link:

Prosecutions continued until a series of United States Supreme Court decisions in 1957 threw out numerous convictions under the Smith Act as unconstitutional.

Yeah, but the next sentence reads:

The statute remains on the books, however.

And several people where actually sent to jail under this law.

(not to mention the more than 100 people that have been in jail at Guantanamo lately without even getting a trial...)

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European Union Asks US To Free ICANN 503

An anonymous reader writes "Viviane Reding, Information Society Commissioner of the European Union, is calling for the United States to hand over control of ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers). She said that the organization running ICANN needs be free of control by a single nation, and rather controlled by a private entity and governed by multiple nations. ICANN, headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, was created in 1998 to oversee a number of Internet related tasks. Reding said, 'In the long run, it is not defendable that the government department of only one country has oversight of an internet function which is used by hundreds of millions of people in countries all over the world.'"

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