What is ICANN's motivation for complying with law-enforcement agency demands? Quite a number of them have proven themselves to be bad actors in the past, and there are provisions in civilized society that restrict them from actually demanding things, absent a specific court order. Which shouldn't really apply to an international regulatory body in a prescriptive manner by most standards - and if it gets such orders it needs to leave for another flag of convenience that doesn't cripple a global infrastructural standard.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" should be the ideal we aspire to. LEA and intelligence-agency intervention in the Internet system is typically damage to our liberty-printing machine, one way or another. Their incentive structure offers no benefits and poses a lot of difficulties in dealing with a free Internet. Pressure from them should be expected as an open adversary to the free Internet, and defended against.