Groups Debate U.N. Control of Internet

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/27/04 | Chris Hawley - AP

[Owen]

The UN is a venue for discussion. It has no power, no authority, no responsibility and no credibility as anything else, and the sooner we make it clear we will fund it to accomplish that limited task and nothing more, the better.

[NRA2BFree]

What a great idea. </ sarcasm> The UN has such a great track record for handling other people's money. i.e. the 'oil for food program' in Iraq. The ONLY thing the US needs from the UN is their notice of intent to vacate the building in NY.

[Pontiac]

Other critics say ICANN is too slow in making decisions and adopting new technology, like ways to transmit Chinese and Arabic characters. VeriSign has sued the organization, saying it is standing in the way of lucrative new services.

Verisign thinks that ICANN is slow? Unless UN bureaucrats are getting a kickback or bribes they take forever to make a decision. Profit is a dirty word to these socialist. What do they care if you are loosing money?

"The United Nations would be a good platform for that, because it has legitimacy. The countries are all represented," said Izzeldin Mohamed Osman, a computer science professor from the Sudan University of Science and Technology.

All countries are not represented in the UN. And as far as legitimacy the UN can not even govern itself. The organization is famous for corruption and nepotism.

[The Great RJ]

We better ask Al Gore if it's OK first..afterall it's his invention.

[farmer18th]

The United Nations would be a good platform for that, because it has legitimacy

??????????

[kdot]

Developing countries, meanwhile, complain they are being left behind

This is empire building. If the UN gets their grubby hands on this, they can sell "services" to developing countries. This could mean infrastructure, hardware, software, and training. The bill for this will be staggering and administered by the UN (corrupt). The UN could be chartered to enforce enfractions, resulting in yet another reason for the smelly camel to put his nose into our tent. Can you say Global Tax? This coincides too closely with the "universal access to broadband" posting earlier. And how about the Microsoft fines levied this week? Could that fine really be about corporate extortion?

[lowbridge]

Some countries and activists argue that ICANN is too close to the United States and want the United Nations to take a greater role in regulating the Internet.

Um, how about.....NO, Scott.

"The United Nations would be a good platform for that, because it has legitimacy.

As opposed to the United States?

The countries are all represented," said Izzeldin Mohamed Osman, a computer science professor from the Sudan University of Science and Technology.

Like Cuba, and Syria, and Iran, China, etc.? They'll all have a hand in "regulating" what I can see or put out on the internet? No thanks.

[longtermmemmory]

The UN is looking for one thing and one thing only. A source of income. They want a taxation source in order to asert independence and and control over member nations.

[samtheman]

Nobody can control the internet.

ICANN, ICANN, ICANN.

[Cobra64]

Fukc the UN. If I were W, I'd get a SWAT team on the East Side and e-f'in-vacuate that building. Those bastards fukc-up every issue that's presented to them. And, we, pay 25% of the dues. Then there's the issue of refurbishing the building... guess who is going to pay for that? I'm fed up with these gutless / mindless / Marxist assholes.

[hoosierham]

Notice the 9-11 terrorists didn't fly into the UN but the US building.

he UN is nothing but world socialism.

[uglybiker]

The ONLY thing the US needs from the UN is their notice of intent to vacate the building in NY.

A notice of eviction would work work just as nice. (Taped to the blade of a bulldozer at the front door.) ;-)

[risk]

Yet another contribution of the American military (DARPA) being tossed to the international wolves ping.

[henderson field]

"They want the UN to take a greater role in regulating the internet."
This isn't going to be another thing like "Oil for Food" is it? You know -- a shake-down?

[Rams82]

Nothing to worry about. The U.N. can't even enforce its own resolutions...

[xrp]

[blackie]

Abolish the UN ~ Now!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[battousai]

Couple of points from reading this...

why do all the people in support of this seem to be Muslims? hmmm?

Why is verisign so worried abut it, they sad that they couldn't go through with the little unregistered domains fiasco a few months back, where if you typed in a domain name, in the .com world, that didn't yet exist it took you to a verisign page which they were being paid advertising revenues for. This broke a lot of anti SPAM systems that depended on the page not found error.

Finally think a few years ahead if the UN controlled the domain registration, then if you happen to be a 'hate group' in their definitions then maybe you wouldn't get a domain name, how better to censor those you don't want to be heard., i.e. conservatives, Christians, you name it...

'FreeRepublic.. we're sorry you can't have a domain anymore by order of the UN, you are a right wing hate group'

And we all know that the ones who love censorship the most are the Liberals.

[jonatron]

"The United Nations would be a good platform for that, because it has legitimacy. The countries are all represented," said Izzeldin Mohamed Osman, a computer science professor from the Sudan University of Science and Technology