The Ukrainian government has asked each tech company to ban its services in Russia, and the list of tech firms refusing to do business or sell products there is growing.
Now Ukraine's technology-friendly leaders are demanding more. They are calling for Russia to be completely cut off from the global Internet.
Their demand has been vehemently rejected by ICANN. It should be noted that iCan is the corporation that provides name and number and operates the world of internet.
It was asked to revoke the certificates of Russia's top domains such as .ru (along with .ru) and its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
ICANN's tagline is "One World, One Internet," and in response to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov, ICANN chief executive Goran Marbi said, "We maintain our objectives of neutrality and the global Internet. Work in support of Regardless of provocation, our mission does not endorse penalties, impose sanctions, or restrict access to any part of the Internet.
The Digital Privacy Group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is one of several organizations supporting the decision.
EFF's Corinne Machiri and Constantinos Comets said in a statement that the war was not the time to "mess with the Internet." Interference with Internet infrastructure protocols will have 'dangerous and lasting consequences'.
These include:
Depriving people of the most powerful tool for sharing information
Set a dangerous precedent
Compromising security and privacy
Ukraine has also asked the cloud infrastructure company CloudFair, which provides protection against cyber attacks, to suspend its services inside Russia.
In a blog post, the company said it considered the requests and concluded that "Russia needs more access to the Internet than less."
BBC News 7 hours ago