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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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Not a dime to the U.N.
1 posted on 02/22/2005 2:16:01 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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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.

Nope, this will happen the day I have sex with Janet Reno and Ted Kennedy apologizes to the country for Mary Jo.

2 posted on 02/22/2005 2:18:56 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: ViLaLuz

I'm not surprised one bit; in fact, I've been expecting this for a long time.


3 posted on 02/22/2005 2:19:25 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: ViLaLuz

I'm not surprised one bit; in fact, I've been expecting this for a long time.


4 posted on 02/22/2005 2:19:42 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: ViLaLuz

The time is coming when free people of the world will have to forcibly remove the abomination of the UN from it's pedestal before it is too late.


5 posted on 02/22/2005 2:20:15 AM PST by frankiep
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To: Concentrate

Sorry about the double post.


6 posted on 02/22/2005 2:20:21 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: ViLaLuz
"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

Yes, "there is an issue out there" -- the power and desires of the worthless U.N.

7 posted on 02/22/2005 2:21:21 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: frankiep
The time is coming when free people of the world will have to forcibly remove the abomination of the UN from it's pedestal before it is too late.

Tomorrow?

8 posted on 02/22/2005 2:22:13 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: beyond the sea

H.R. 1146 will withdraw the USA from the United Nations’ madhouse/cesspool.
Go to: http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html . Then go lobby at http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm . Email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov . White House comment line is 202-456-1111.
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.
The whole mission of the UN is to take power, money and national sovereignty from the USA. Thus the United States must withdraw from and defund the UN, a worthless organization, and if we go, if we are lucky, the whole thing will implode.


9 posted on 02/22/2005 2:23:11 AM PST by RobertMorrow (Email for HR 1146: WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations; Bush email is president@whitehouse.gov)
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To: beyond the sea

"Sex with Janet Reno",....eeeuuuuuuwwww.

I better go have a drink. Or one or two or three. Or go take a bath.


10 posted on 02/22/2005 2:25:03 AM PST by garyhope
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To: All
ON THE NET...


UN.org: "Welcome to the UN. It's Your World."

UNesco.org: "WORLD NETWORK OF BIOSPHERE RESERVE"

UN.org: "UNITED NATIONS DIVISION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA 21" (UN WEB SITE SNIPPET: "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.")

"UNglobalCompact.org"

www.itu.int/wsis: "WSIS: THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY"

11 posted on 02/22/2005 2:26:05 AM PST by Cindy
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To: ViLaLuz

the International Telecommunications Union can't get off its butt to decide anything. It takes years for them to decide on new standards for equipment or to regulate new methods for communications. look at CAT 5 or 5e cable: they still have not gone beyond this mark though new technology has gone beyond this level but they have been wallowing for years.


12 posted on 02/22/2005 2:30:41 AM PST by Liaison (Semper Gumbi- Always Flexible---- ;))
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To: Cindy

Thanks, Cindy.


13 posted on 02/22/2005 2:36:33 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: ViLaLuz

You're very welcome ViLaLuz.


14 posted on 02/22/2005 2:37:31 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Concentrate

Let's see, they also demand a world tax on every human being, paid directly...whether any countries agree or not. An organization composed of thieves, thugs, and murderers by at least a third. They all hate us. They want UN dominance, period. A global nightmare.


15 posted on 02/22/2005 2:41:13 AM PST by hershey
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To: ViLaLuz
The Useless Nations controlling the Internet.

I DON'T THINK SO!!!

16 posted on 02/22/2005 2:46:29 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like.")
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To: ViLaLuz

Oh I'm sure the crooks in the UN would love have control of the internet so they could shut down the free spread of information.

Hope I never see the day they get their way!



17 posted on 02/22/2005 2:47:25 AM PST by GloriaJane ("How Many Babies Are Crying In Heaven Tonight" http://music.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: ViLaLuz
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.

"yesssss, and pleeeeze, " said frenchie french, "we would like all zee world's banks to be lodged in gay paree, where, naturellement, we will administer ze money to zee rest of zee world. after all, even saddam hussein deserves a room with a view."

18 posted on 02/22/2005 2:48:01 AM PST by wildwood
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To: frankiep
The time is coming when free people of the world will have to forcibly remove the abomination of the UN from it's pedestal before it is too late.

What if we could convince the left that the true home of the UN should be France, that they're too many cowboys in the US for true, limp-wristed collectivist dialogue to take place? If the seed could be planted among the globalist types that France is the true and proper home for this monstrosity, maybe they would move it of their own accord.
19 posted on 02/22/2005 2:48:34 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: ViLaLuz

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


20 posted on 02/22/2005 2:48:58 AM PST by The Duke
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