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U.N. to control use of Internet?
World Net Daily ^ | February 22, 2005 | World Net Daily

Posted on 02/22/2005 2:15:56 AM PST by ViLaLuz

Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.

The committee, which was set up in December 2003, is laying the groundwork for the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society where a final decision on the control of the Net will be determined, stated a Reuters report. The summit will take place in Tunis in November.

The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam.

ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, currently is the most recognizable Internet governing body, but developing countries want a U.N. agency, such as the International Telecommunication Union, to have control over domain names and other issues.

"There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved," Nitin Desai, chairman of the panel and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told Reuters.

Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's addressing system, which matches numerical addresses to website addresses. Critics claim ICANN is subject to U.S. political influence.

According to the report, developing countries see the International Telecommunication Union, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things established country code rules for international telephone calls, as better able to deal with Internet governance.

At the first World Summit on the Information Society in 2003, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called for international rules to govern the Net.

"The information society offers new opportunities, but like all new technological revolutions it also brings uncertainty," Raffarin said. "It calls on us to establish international rules, which citizens can rely on."

At the time, China was leading efforts to globalize Internet control. Beijing allows its own citizens online access, but only with government surveillance. China was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; cyberspace; global; govern; government; icann; internet; nations; new; order; summit; un; united; unsecgenclinton; world
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To: ViLaLuz
They can have the internet when they pry my mouse FMCDH...
21 posted on 02/22/2005 2:49:14 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ViLaLuz

They can't even control their own people. What makes them think they'll do any better with the internet. Sounds like 1984 only 21 years later.


22 posted on 02/22/2005 2:49:43 AM PST by MadAnthony1776 ("liberalism" = "do as I say, not as I do")
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To: ViLaLuz
MOUSE CONTROL!
23 posted on 02/22/2005 2:50:32 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: GloriaJane

We are the U.N. All your servers are belong to us.


24 posted on 02/22/2005 2:51:39 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: ViLaLuz
If this was not so pitiful, I would be laughing.

ROTFL! I am anyway.

25 posted on 02/22/2005 2:52:28 AM PST by Cold Heat (What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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To: The Duke
"in totally unrelated news today Kofi Annan's son announced that he was starting a small ISP business in Fresno."

... Annan's son and Bill Clinton--Bubba.net

26 posted on 02/22/2005 2:54:35 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: ViLaLuz
"The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam."

All the problems socialists set out to resolve usually wind up becoming worse. I just see checking my email, loaded with UN spam political propaganda and scams suck money out of me.

And free speech via the Internet, it would be gone!
27 posted on 02/22/2005 2:55:04 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: ViLaLuz
Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.

Actually, I was hoping for the day when the UN wouldn't exist. At least now they are good for a laugh.

28 posted on 02/22/2005 2:58:02 AM PST by Casloy
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To: ViLaLuz

Controlling all information is a great way to global domination. This needs to get out everywhere--and fast.


29 posted on 02/22/2005 3:04:28 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: hershey
thieves, thugs, and murderers

You forgot pedophiles.

30 posted on 02/22/2005 3:05:43 AM PST by just me (Over 59,000,000 Americans voted not to negotiate with terrorist.....)
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To: ViLaLuz

Information flowing among good people is a threat to all criminals/socialists.


31 posted on 02/22/2005 3:06:55 AM PST by PGalt
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To: zip; BOBWADE

ping


32 posted on 02/22/2005 3:12:10 AM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans)
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To: ViLaLuz
U.N., well it seemed like a good idea at the time. Honest
it did!

Yeah, lets turn over the Internet to the U.N.. In your dreams!
33 posted on 02/22/2005 3:14:33 AM PST by cleo1939
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To: just me
You forgot pedophiles.

... and rapists.

34 posted on 02/22/2005 3:16:14 AM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: garyhope

Sex with Janet Reno"..thanx guy ,,I just woke up and had to read that Yuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
UN controlling the internet..Absurd , never happen in a million years ..As usual , they are blowing smoke out their asses . Having meetings and power lunches and more meetings and doing nOTHING as the UN always does..Not to worry . They couldn't run a birthday party for a 3 year old never mind the internet. It would take them 25 years to even decide how to approach the situation as they do with anything else. What a farce..


35 posted on 02/22/2005 3:21:23 AM PST by hineybona
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To: farmer18th

I would rather just tell them to get out.


36 posted on 02/22/2005 3:21:46 AM PST by cleo1939
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To: ViLaLuz
Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.

HA HA HA HA HA!
37 posted on 02/22/2005 3:25:39 AM PST by Dallas59 (Bush said the "F" word 27 times January 20th, 2005!)
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To: The Duke

***...and in totally unrelated news today Kofi Annan's son announced that he was starting a small ISP business in Fresno.***

LOL! How true.


38 posted on 02/22/2005 3:26:46 AM PST by kitkat (Our Founding Fathers are PROUD of Pres. George W. Bush)
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To: ViLaLuz
I wish it was just a dime.

Carolyn

39 posted on 02/22/2005 3:27:09 AM PST by CDHart (The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
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To: ViLaLuz
The end of innovation would occur if emerging technologies were controlled by third-world politicians and diplomats.
40 posted on 02/22/2005 3:37:31 AM PST by Beckwith (I know Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
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