Comments on: Cyber Unity? http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/11/05/cyber-unity/ Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Charles N. Steele http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/11/05/cyber-unity/comment-page-1/#comment-14636 Charles N. Steele Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:27:12 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=4224#comment-14636 Rothbard argued that Mises' plebescite argument leads to the conclusion that every individual has the right to secede from any political union. May I add the corollary that every individual should have the right to secede from established linguistic groups and develop her/his own characters for domain names, etc.? The ultimate in individual self-expression! (I'm joking, but OTOH, there are something like 50 alphabets, plus numerous written languages that do not use alphabets -- e.g. Chinese dialects, Japanese, Korean, etc. And then there are non-written languages with no characters at all. No doubt each one deserves equal treatment by ICANN. For non-written languages some sort of speech recognition software should work so we can have spoken domain names. So just where <i>does</i> all this end?) Rothbard argued that Mises’ plebescite argument leads to the conclusion that every individual has the right to secede from any political union. May I add the corollary that every individual should have the right to secede from established linguistic groups and develop her/his own characters for domain names, etc.? The ultimate in individual self-expression!

(I’m joking, but OTOH, there are something like 50 alphabets, plus numerous written languages that do not use alphabets — e.g. Chinese dialects, Japanese, Korean, etc. And then there are non-written languages with no characters at all. No doubt each one deserves equal treatment by ICANN. For non-written languages some sort of speech recognition software should work so we can have spoken domain names. So just where does all this end?)

]]> By: Mirsulzhan@Namazaliev http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/11/05/cyber-unity/comment-page-1/#comment-14562 Mirsulzhan@Namazaliev Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:29:48 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=4224#comment-14562 Thank you, Tom! Here is the translation in russian: http://www.neweurasia.net/ru/media-and-internet/атака-алфавитов-подорвет-ли-кибер-кир/ Thank you, Tom!
Here is the translation in russian: http://www.neweurasia.net/ru/m.....р-кир/

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