It sounds like the governments bent on censorship have managed to pack the ICANN board enough to get this proposal seriously considered but not enough that the ICANN board can't still usually override them:

Why else would ICANN's own board even be considering giving this power away?

How many chickens did you trade for your computer?

But if they're on the no fly list they won't be able to get a sample of the original virus.

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Then please bring back OMG Ponies. The colorblind won't mind either way and everyone else loves it.

They were buying a little RC quadcopter not a Predator or Reaper.

Someone was pulling your leg unless you mean their internal bookkeeping and H.R. records or internal research projects. But for the typical drive in a Google search engine node, well, all of its data is available to the entire public via Google's own web page. which is kinda the point. There's no need to shred those drives

All the truly impoverished and starving people around the world are in countries that feature a lack of capitalism.

Isn't the sticking point here not that the person contracting for service agrees to a non-disparagement clause but that person agrees on behalf of everyone in their entire group? Is that realistic?

Definitely - there are plenty of phone options that do NOT require a PC adding complexity.

It's right there in the opening phrase; this IS a case of someone who sells the systems using it themselves: "Bitcoin hardware vendor BitFury has opened ..."

He isn't looking at it backwards and does indeed have three serious business concerns. The business is concerned about shelling out to the third party consultants for every little change, concerned about data silos in the form of the spreadsheets, and concerned about future scalability in light of concerns 1 and 2.

I say definitely move development in house for this large of an ongoing project.

For every person who wants the factory built nearby for the economic impact, there's a certain ratio of people who don't want it built nearby for whatever reason; traffic, worries about industrial accidents, whatever. So if they're smart, yes, they're already way too far along building to get it stopped by protests.

Which it really weird considering they're always driving on the wrong side of the road.

How does it deal when I ask it what ketamine is?