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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: UN taking control of the Internet
by
MingLee
on 02/10/2016, 05:38:26 UTC
The internet isn't being transferred, what is happening is that the ICANN org is being handed over to the UN. They deal with the Domain Name Service system of the internet, of DNS. This is vastly different from the entire internet.

What this means is that, simply, if any website is "blocked" by the UN for x or y reason, you will not be able to type in the Domain Name (bitcointalk.org, reddit.com, 4chan.org, etc.) and get access to it, but you CAN type the direct IP of it and gain access to the website.

It can just be used as a measure to stop subjective "hate speech" from being widely accessible, and discourage readers from the extra effort.