Developing Nations Want Internet Brought Under UN Control

CNS NEWS ^ | September 29, 2005 | Patrick Goodenough

[Dark Skies]

The operative word in that entire article is "control." The internet means freedom of speech and freedom of ideas. Tyrannical regimes all over the world have a right to feel threatened...they are.

Islam itself is threatened by it. It's big lie will be exposed. The sinful acts of defiling the Prophet and Allah will be plain for all to see, yet the defilers (of which I am one) are beyond the reach of the bony hands of the imams and the islamic religious police.

LONG LIVE THE INTERNET!!!

[MNJohnnie]

HELL NO. Any other questions today 3rd world parasites? Don't like US control, develop your own Internet.

[RightWhale]

There it is. This is the same group that likes the idea of the Law of the Sea Treaty, the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, the Moon Treaty. It's all for them, even though they are so far behind they will never benefit by holding the leaders back.

[pollyannaish]

And go get your own if you don't like it. ; )

[colonialhk]

Let them build it and fund it and compete with it.....oops no economic model there folks

[z3n]

The UN can run its OWN internet if it wants to, it can't have mine. If the UN ever took control of the current internet, private U.S. enterprises would simply build a new private backbone independent of the U.N. control infrastructure, which by it's very own nature, would be run 100x more efficiently and with less beaurocracy than anything the U.N. ever put its hands on.

[OSHA]

The US Algore developed the internet, we'll control it, thankyouVERYmuch!

[Famishus]

'nother bookmark

[steel_resolve]

At preparatory talks currently underway in Geneva, countries are broadly split between Western countries supportive of existing institutions, and developing nations wanting to end U.S. control - a situation the Chinese envoy called "undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable."

snort! Undemocratic? China? Kettle? Black? What a Go# Damn loser country China is. Bunch of opportunistic intellectual property rip off artists.

[Lil'freeper]

If they're "developing", they should develop their own internet.

[magslinger]

They can control it out of the UN's new headquarters.

[cinives]

Root name servers are controlled by ICANN, which is not a governmental agency of any government. It's a private, non-profit corporation, with representatives from many nations.

[Disambiguator]

All Your Packets Are Belong To US.

[lwd]

How long before some one world socialist democrat is elected POTUS and bows to their request? We need to make sure we get all of the potential candidates in '08 on record regarding this issue.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

and developing nations wanting to end U.S. control

and developing nations wanting subsidized access to the web...paid for by the U.S.

[Prime Choice]

Just what the world needs: information technology run by the Communists in China and the scammers in Nigeria.

The longer I live, the more the line between satire and reality becomes indistinguishable.

[Steve_Seattle]

I can understand why Iran, China, and Cuba would want to get the Internet out of USA control, but what's Brazil's angle?

[proud_yank]

Here is the website of the UN's group that wants control of the internet if anyone would like to check it out. We give this up, next they will try to dissolve US patent laws. Wait and see....

http://www.wgig.org/

[JustAnotherOkie]

Get this all...

- Mailing Address
United Nations Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance
Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

email: wgig@unog.ch
Tel: +41 22 917 57 68
Fax: +41 22 917 00 92

You thinking what I am thinking????

[proud_yank]

My e-mail to the UN:

Dear Secretariat,

I just wanted to drop you a line concerning the United Nation's stance on internet governance. Since the United Nations feels it is necessary to try and take control of the internet from the United States, might I offer an alternative. Invent your own internet.

The United States invented, funded, and developed the internet. If you have any issues concerning US control over it, why not invent your own? Countries that have issues with things accessable via the web are able to block them at their will, so I personally do not see the issue here.

Will the US Patent System be next on the list of things that should be under direct control and supervision of the United Nations?

Please feel free to e-mail me with any answers, questions, or viewpoints of your own.

Thank you,
Proud_Yank