Posted on 11/16/2007 11:02:12 AM PST by spacekicker
"I’m no tech head, but I think I know a thing or three about the Internet and how it works. And as far as I can tell, it works pretty well.
More than 1.4 billion people around the world seem to be emailing each other a lot, and those emails get delivered a lot faster and more reliably than “snail mail.” Lots of people are innovating around the Internet – voice calling over the Internet, e-commerce, blogs, education, employment, and healthcare services, music and video streaming and downloads, and such – and lots and lots of people are profiting from those innovations and the websites and companies that operate online.
So if things are going so well, why is it that some folks are seriously thinking about taking management of the Internet away from the United States and handing control to the United Nations?
(Excerpt) Read more at fredfile.fred08.com ...
Love it, but we’re going to hear from the USPS!! :-)
The UN is singing, “Cause I’m the tax man. Yeeaaahhh, I’m the tax man.”
Where do I sign your petition?
“So if things are going so well, why is it that some folks are seriously thinking about taking management of the Internet away from the United States and handing control to the United Nations?
This is news to me; who is he referring to?
GO FRED!!
Have you noticed that no one but Rudy and Hillary get much attention?
It is really disgusting.
Now if he only came out for kicking the U.N. out of the U.S. that would be the kicker.
They already made Google and Yahoo squeal like a pig.
There was a UN conference a week ago, in South America, I think, demanding the US turn over control to the UN. It didn’t get much play because it was so absurd.
BTTT
Today ICANN does things like manage the assignment of Web sites domain names – the .coms, .orgs, .edus – for example.
Some domain names. The national top-level domains are managed by their national registrars, and have been from the beginning -- .cn by China, .uk by Britain, etc.
But countries like China aren’t happy about U.S. control of “the tubes.” They’d rather have the U.N. run it.
The US doesn't run "the tubes," even in the US. The lines are run by telecom companies, in much of the world state-owned.
I wonder how the U.N. would’ve handled the situation in Burma recently when the government cut off all Internet access to all anti-government protesters, or how it would’ve handled the imprisonment in China of dissidents and reporters who emailed news out of the country.
If that's the example, it's not much of an argument -- the UN could hardly do less than the US did in those two cases.
Why not post it all next time?
And, I almost forgot to mention, ICANN is already an international organization.
It is interesting that he is speaking of something that got no interest at the UN. It was very unpopular.
Fred has not disappointed me yet either. GO FRED GO!
1) Not sure if I should, thought maybe it’d be too long.
2) I’d rather have the traffic go to Fred’s site.
If China and some of the others are so upset about who is running the internet, why don’t they start their own and turn it over to the UN? They rest of us will stay with the one we have now.
I like Fred also but I’m waiting to make an endorsement. I’ll have a press conference when the announcement is made.
That's essentially what they did. The Internet is a network of networks, of which China has one. The networks share common protocols so they can talk to each other.
Amen!
the President could simply give a company of grunt Marines orders to "secure the (UN) building".
the President could simply give a company of grunt Marines orders to "secure the (UN) building".
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