[.cnI redruM]

Hey. Not bad news for a Monday!

[Judith Anne]

The internet cannot be controlled. Not possible.

Oh, sure, regulations could be written. But nobody will ever "control" it.

[sauropod]

Good!

[BureaucratusMaximus]

HA! HAh!

[Choose Ye This Day]

"This has been a victory for the pro-business model,"

No, it has been a victory for the pro-freedom model. Business is just one part of that. Hey, U.N. commie states: Keep your hands off my internet!!!

[big bad easter bunny]

Maybe we learned our lesson from The canal?

[big bad easter bunny]

All our servers belong to us!

[BluSky]

I never discount the creative mal-intentions of those that vote democrat and harbor the leftist notions to get their hands on more monies from others.

To these ilk......nothing is impossible to conceive.....

Today, the internet.....tomorrow?

Be always vigilant.

[CaptRon]

developing countries have been pushing for a greater role in managing and setting policy for the Internet.

How about working on running water and flush toilets before getting your knickers in a knot over the Internet.

[AD from SpringBay]

Eternal vigilance means they only have to win once - on so many issues.

[No.6]

This is not about tax, this is about control.

"Carlos Achiary, national director of Information Technology Argentina, said many governments are frustrated because the Internet is having a tremendous effect in their countries"

As we prove every day on FR, the free exchange of ideas promotes liberty. The biggest threat to China's oppression is not our military, or our businesses, but that daily the Chinese people know (and if careful, can see) that there exists a people on the Earth who don't ask for permission from the State before they worship; don't ask for permission before they have children; don't ask for permission, but instead tell their Government what >it< may or may not do.

Every day that information flows freely is a day the world's population grows closer to liberty. Every constraint put on that information brings us closer to the day the Declaration of Independence is removed and replaced with the single word: crimethink.

[RightWhale]

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.

[Billthedrill]

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.

[Destructor]

WOO-HOO!