We keep making the comparison to China and how oppressive their government is, but even China would not take actions like these. We have a writer who has been talking about moving out of America lately and I fear this may push him over the edge. This is so damn serious, here is a quote from his latest article…
Imagine if the Las Vegas Sands, the Wynn Hotel and Casino, the Mirage, and several other major American gambling brands had their websites seized by the Chinese government.
Imagine if China did not just deny their citizens the right to visit these sites, but also filed a governmental decree that demanded registrars hand over control of the domain names of these major US companies.
Now imagine that China was successful in gaining control of those domain names, and imagine that those companies did not have a land based presence. They would have seen their entire company gone. Stolen by the Chinese government. Their stocks would crash. Their stock holders would lose millions and thousands of American workers would be out of jobs.
Now, imagine that this was not China doing it to American companies, but America doing it to foreign companies…