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U.N. control of Web rejected
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^
| 8 Dec 03
| By John Zaracostas
Posted on 12/08/2003 7:46:01 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: autonomy; freespeech; icann; internet; un
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
FYI.
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12/08/2003 10:34:13 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: .cnI redruM
The UN should be given control of nothing. Reason: the UN is an NGO not a governmental body, and they are constantly looking for some way to be given authority to tax.
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:39:03 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: RightWhale
That's a definite fact. The UN would, for all intents and purposes, become a defacto government if it got the right to collect revenue.
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:46:59 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
To: .cnI redruM
But in the end, one Latin American ambassador said, "No one wanted to challenge the real power of the private sector of the rich countries." Well, they all challenged it. But that "real power" is the inconvenient fact that they who invented it, built it, operate it, maintain it, and repair it are not convinced that those who did and can do none of those things, ought to be in charge of it.
There is only one way that the 'net can be used to help in the development of nations whose citizens are bereft even of running water, and that is, as someone pointed out above, to use it as a base for taxation and a means for redistribution of wealth. That isn't "managing" it, it's milking it.
To: Billthedrill
"No one wanted to challenge the real power of the private sector of the rich countries."
And no one is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use the Internet.
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12/08/2003 10:56:33 AM PST
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.cnI redruM
( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
To: .cnI redruM
WOO-HOO!
To: .cnI redruM
"I figure the UN will eventually monopolize information. It's a depressing thought."
Yea, if I believed the whole world would turn into The Village then I'd be depressed.
Fortunately the more oppressive the goverment the worse everything works, so these societies falter before free societies.
As for rollbacks, I agree. Or, as others here said, if they don't like the Internet we built, let them build their own!
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12/08/2003 4:37:09 PM PST
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