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Pinging the folks!

I receive alerts from time to time from some friends who follow world events letting me know about many which need prayer. I do not have at this moment the link to the article in question, but it seemed important enough to bring it to your attention, and I will see if I can obtain the relevant link and post it on this thread later.

This is regarding an upcoming effort in Geneva February 27 by the UN to basically create a treaty to take control of the internet.

For those who are inclined to pray, I encourage you to ask the Lord to intercede in this core of darkness arrayed against our freedom!

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(Points to pray about from a Wall Street Journal article:)

· On February 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the U.N. unprecedented powers over the Internet.

· Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing to reach this goal by the end of the year.

· The treaty is called the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), organized under the U.N.

· The current private-sector approach has been in operation since 1988 has been the key to the Internet’s success.

· Today, however, Russia and China and their allies within 193 member states of the ITU want to renegotiate the 1988 treaty to expand its reach into previously unregulated areas.

· Following is the list of proposals that will be on the table at a conference in December 2012 in Dubai.

· The International Telecommunications Treaty being organized under the United Nations.

· The meeting on February 27 in Gevena with leaders of countries who are part of discussions about the treaty, including Russia and China.

· The conference scheduled for December in Dubai to review or approve proposals for the treaty.

· The protection of the free use of the Internet and current de-regulation and private-sector approach.

· All plots to defraud the people of the freedom of communication and a free-market system.
Amen

Following is a partial list of proposals that will be discussed in December at a conference in Dubai from the WSJ article:

· Subject cyber security and data privacy to international control;

· Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for “international” Internet traffic, perhaps even on a “per-click” basis for certain Web destinations, with the goal of generating revenue for state-owned phone companies and government treasuries;

· Impose unprecedented economic regulations such as mandates for rates, terms and conditions for currently unregulated traffic-swapping agreements known as “peering.”

· Establish for the first time ITU dominion over important functions of multi-stakeholder Internet governance entities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit entity that coordinates the .com and .org Web addresses of the world;

· Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;

· Regulate international mobile roaming rates and practices.