Although Icann does its job on behalf of all net users, many of its decisions still have to be rubber-stamped by the US Department of Commerce and it only exists because the government lets it.

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And I think we move toward a more comprehensive approach to policing in our communities that what citizens have to say is not simply regarded as the okay or the rubber stamp to a policy that was created within the police department itself.

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Tuesday's Stormont session, which rubber-stamped the executive's agreement to extend the cross community compromise over the justice department, was rather more predictable than Tuesday's Dail sitting, when Enda Kenny confirmed that the Irish people would be given their chance to say yes or no to the European fiscal compact.

BBC: Referenda still on the agenda on both sides of the border