The United Nations is in the division business. That is, dividing you from your domain name if it decides your website promotes online extremism or hate speech. One call to your hosting company, and if they are of that big tech anti-free speech bent, your web address will no longer resolve anywhere online.
Some bobo at the World Economic Forum described the problem like this.
Translation: we can and should use this power to silence speech. Any speech the UN anti-terrorism directorate decides could create an unsafe experience, as defined by them, with the aid of like-minded big tech companies who would take this sort of unconstitutional intrusion as if it had any force of law in the US.
It does not, but how comfortable do you feel about local, state, or national justice officials going to bat to defend your rights?
None?
A rising outcry that leads to punishing the hosting company is about the only reliable act of resistance you could count on, but that doesn’t return ownership of your domain name to you or remove the hold on the digital property held beneath it.
A few months back, GraniteGrok began pursuing options for mirror sites and backup hosting if our hosting company decided to shut us down. I think we’ll need to revisit that and soon.
You may want to do that yourself but watch the video first to get more background.
