Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government officials pressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites.
Guess who "US government officials" might be - Yes, our little Karl into trouble again
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As reported by FoxNews, of all places!
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The documents released so far reveal that the United States government exerted undue political influence on ICANN's consideration of the .xxx domain application, and treated an independent corporation as a client agency of the United States government despite a lack of any legitimate authority to do so," wrote Stuart Lawley, ICM Registry president, in an e-mail to eWEEK.
As the e-mail blitz was going on, Bush's main political operative, Karl Rove, met with James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, who wanted to air his opposition to the .xxx proposal, ICM learned through other sources
If true, it means the U.S. government violated terms of a complicated arrangement it has with ICANN, the Internet authority that voted 9-5 two weeks ago not to OK the .xxx proposal.
Poor baby just can't stay out of the limelight.