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To: EagleUSA
This does have the smell of the Clintons on it. Hillary wants government regulators to "edit" internet content and eliminate those pesky articles about the Clintons on WorldNetDaily and Newsmax. But I'm not too concerned about the UN controlling the internet. If the UN tries to stop free expression on the World Wide Web, the western captalist countries that want free expession can build a new Western Internet in a few months. All we have to do is light some of the fiber optic cables connecting the US, Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Italy and any other country that believes in free enterprise and doesn't want to be under UN control. Bingo, in a few months you have a new unregulated Western Web and before long all the captalist countries will hook up to the new network. (Meanwhile the old network will fall apart under the mismangement of France, Sweden, Greece, Brazil and the other socialist countries.)

You see the internet is nothing more than servers, phone lines, switches, routers, and client computers. It's extremely flexible and essentially impossible to regulate without UN troops occupying the entire world. If the blue helmets try to storm our beachs (or the UN tries to put our troops under UN control) then we have real problems.

100 posted on 11/12/2004 9:56:34 PM PST by defenderSD (Suddenly the raven on Scalia's shoulder stirred and spoke. Quoth the raven..."NeverGore")
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To: defenderSD

Just to clarify one point I made: It is possible to regulate the internet in the western world, but the UN cannot do this without the cooperation of all the western governments. From everything I've read, the UN is not going to get any cooperation from the west on internet regulation. This UN conference is just another UN-funded week-long boondogle of a party.


101 posted on 11/12/2004 10:02:31 PM PST by defenderSD (Suddenly the raven on Scalia's shoulder stirred and spoke. Quoth the raven..."NeverGore")
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278546/posts?page=65#65


109 posted on 11/13/2004 6:15:41 AM PST by B4Ranch (A lack of alcohol in my coffee is forcing me to see reality!)
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