If that's the case, maybe the US government needs to reclaim authority over ICANN, which it had until a few years ago, and assert that authority to reverse this decision. There needs to be some kind of effective oversight.
I don't even agree with them having .gov, them regaining .org would be a disaster.
If anything, some sort of multi-national, strictly non-profit charity should be setup for this, or if not, the U.N. as a last resort.
Because they did until very recently.
> If anything, some sort of multi-national, strictly non-profit charity should be setup for this, or if not, the U.N. as a last resort.
That would take literally years, and would be too-little, too-late to deal with these shenanigans around the .org TLD.
That's not an argument. Any regressive policy could and has been justified in those terms.
Yes, it is. The US government has an institutional history of overseeing ICAAN, so it's the most practical organization to take on that role on short notice.
I think you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Your preferred multi-national solution would likely take years to negotiate, which means it's not really even a solution at all, as far as .org is concerned.
Now that is not an argument. The majority of people don't <insert nearly anything>. The net did pretty well under American stewardship. Sure there was Tipper Gore, but everything worked out. Every time some faceless UN bureaucrat mused about taxing email, or charging extra for "long distance" routing - it was nice knowing that there was a historically sane hand on the wheel. You want something like the EU in charge? Their copyright legislation is the most nakedly corrupt barrier to entry I've ever seen. This kills the net.