Plan for UN to run internet 'will be shelved' (but now on international agenda)

Financial Times ^ | 11/10/03 | ft

[Dan from Michigan]

F*** the UN...

[NYC GOP Chick]

"I know! Let's give control back the inventor---- Al Gore!!!" Yeah!! And for our security, Al would put the Internet in a lock box. ;)

These days, Al would probably put it in his makeup case:

[Jumper]

The old Iraqi OIL FOR FOOD Program gave these "useful" ID10TS their first real taste of UN profit on a commodity needed by everyone and now they want to exercise more revenue raising against the affluent world peoples. The UN has become the champion of little collective tyrants by virtue of their assembled membership subverting democratic mechanisms to benefit socialist mindsets. This is an example of the same failed ideological thought process that has hampered Europe.

[NormsRevenge]

Insert UN Game Token Here ---> [I]

[Wolfhound777]

An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month's world information summit in Geneva - but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda, summit sources say.

This needs to be shelved permanently. This could be disasterous for the 1st Amendment and free commerce. I don't want UN oversight of anything that affects the United States, period. We really need to start considering getting out of this organization. Once they get control, they will attempt to start taxing the use of the internet under some auspice of funding humanitarian projects which is really a cover for supporting Islamic Terrorism and welfare for the rest of the world at our expense. It peeves me that my tax money ends up in their socialist coffers due to the congress critters redirecting it now, but they will have to kill me before I pay one cent to the United Nations of Socialists, Communists, and Terrorists directly.

[Wolfhound777]

The minute the UN starts running the Internet is the day my computer and all outside communications devices goes in the shitcan.

No. We will just have to design our own encrypted networks for communication by creating our own ISPs. Unless they get control over all US phone lines, there is not much they can do. And with true secure Wireless Networking not that far off, we would not even need to use their infrastructure. They could try and regulate or jam frequencies but that would cause too much pain for business and one could secure frequency hop so they would not really know where you were communicating at any given time.

[yonif]

.itsthefaultofthejews

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[kcar]

Y'all didn't create this UN monster. Yeck, y'all been haunted by for it personally for time outta mind. This, like most other monsters, was created unintentionally as a result of collectively enunciated good intentions. Committees made this. And now they don't want to disband and go on and do something useful with their lifespan. Poli-sci 101.
We're gonna need to fetch the vampire slaying kit for this one. Bad case of good intentions run amok and become self-important. Geez, maybe we could put Kofi Annan in the same padded bunk as Al Gore to save money.

[Quix]

GROUP . . .

THIS IS a hideous and horrid devil lop ment.

It's not likely to go away.

It has horrid potentil. I won't elaborate. Let em think of details on their own.

We'll likely need to stay relentlessly alert and be vigorous in our determination to prevent such.

[longtermmemmory]

The UN is seeking only one thing: a source of taxation. It does not matter what it is. The UN needs a source of internationally consented income.

They are still stinging from being exposed as a naked emperor debating society. They also realize that to get anthing done the US must consent. The USA rules the UN.

Which brings us back to the UN wanting a tax source.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I smell an "Atlas Shrugged" sequel.

If they ever really tried to seize control of the Internet, the U.S. should just say, "To Hades with you," walk away, and then we'd develop a separate, competing system, exclusive to U.S. citizens, which in three months' time would be better than what the One Worlders have.

[RISU]

We must not forget that the net started with a few dedicated servers on regular telephone lines.

If they take the 3w, we can just create 4w and run it like the ARRL.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I have a heard and fast rule about that. Anytime anyone--especially a politician--starts talking about doing something "for the children," I grab my wallet, hold on tight, and head for the nearest exit. Because that means only ONE thing...

[concerned about politics]

It's none of the U.N.'s business. We're Americans. They have no power to tell us what we can and cannot do on our computers - period!

[concerned about politics]

If I'm not mistaken, JimRob and FR are suing for defamation/slander.

Good. They should. The leftie lied.

[concerned about politics]

Sure, they've convinced governments. But have they convinced the people? Not really. I'll be happy to click the old "delete" button on spam a few times a day in exchange for freedom.

We just set up a junk folder. The mail is sorted for us. Poof! No junk makes it into our good mail. Problem solved.

[pragmatic_asian]

If they decide that they want to take control of the Internet, so what? The vast majority of the hardware is in the US. Running their part of the Internet in an incompatible manner than that of the US and Europe would make their systems essentially worthless.

[concerned about politics]

.allyourconservativewebsitesarebelongtous

LOL!!

[self_evident]

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