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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
The committee, which was set up in December 2003

Fifteen months of great lunches in exotic locales. Imagine the numbers of shrimp and lobsters that gave their lives for the UN cause...

41 posted on 02/22/2005 3:41:22 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: ViLaLuz

lol! The UN sees itself as being the "check/balance" to the US. And the lefties support this concept. As do their luminaries, and big rollers.


42 posted on 02/22/2005 3:54:05 AM PST by Alia
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To: ViLaLuz
China was leading efforts to globalize Internet control ...(and) was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa

Oh yeah, this would be great.

The Left would have no problem with this, because they want these people to like us.

43 posted on 02/22/2005 3:54:06 AM PST by Guillermo ("Now how can a Puerto Rican lose a fly ball in the sun?' - Harry Caray)
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To: ViLaLuz

China was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa.

Says it all, doesn't it?

Free Republic would be shut down in a heartbeat.


44 posted on 02/22/2005 3:58:29 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: ViLaLuz

I don't like this at all.


45 posted on 02/22/2005 4:04:36 AM PST by commonguymd (My impatience is far more advanced than any known technology.)
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To: hineybona
They couldn't run a birthday party for a 3 year old never mind the internet

With Bill Clinton as Secretary General, a little hair coloring and some Chuckie Cheese invitations there could be real progress made. Janet Reno, Hillary and Michael Jackson would certainly volunteer to sing "We Are the World."

46 posted on 02/22/2005 4:05:08 AM PST by alrea (HELP WANTED. New Jersey Director of Homeland Defense: must be willing performer & cute.)
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To: ViLaLuz
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.

You can have my mouse when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

47 posted on 02/22/2005 4:10:56 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: ViLaLuz

Not in this country.....


48 posted on 02/22/2005 4:27:54 AM PST by Vaquero
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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



Indeed there is Mr. Desai..and the way to resolve the issue is to remove you and your like to a more hospitable country.


49 posted on 02/22/2005 4:42:36 AM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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To: ViLaLuz
they can claim good intentions,

and you know none of us will buy that for a minute!!!

GET US OUT OF THE UN AND THE UN OUT OF THE UN!

50 posted on 02/22/2005 4:45:40 AM PST by MetalHeadConservative35 (Freakin Patroits.....)
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To: MetalHeadConservative35

US,out of the UN sorry,


51 posted on 02/22/2005 4:45:59 AM PST by MetalHeadConservative35 (Freakin Patroits.....)
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To: bill1952
Free Republic would be shut down in a heartbeat.It and hundreds of thousands of other sites like it would simply go underground. The means exist now for a completely separate internet. If they get their sanitized, regulated, taxed, politically correct internet, I guarantee you'll see it springing back to life on private modems and pirate servers worldwide. There's no stopping it now.
52 posted on 02/22/2005 4:49:18 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Aaaarrgghhh)
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To: ViLaLuz
There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved

And we all know what it is. It's the UN, itself.

KICK THEM OUT - NOW !!!!


53 posted on 02/22/2005 4:55:52 AM PST by sevry
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To: SlowBoat407
Like the old BBS (Bulletin Board System) via direct link...
54 posted on 02/22/2005 4:59:50 AM PST by Barney59 (Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
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To: lowbridge
Post Apocalyptic BUMP on that one...
55 posted on 02/22/2005 5:01:00 AM PST by Barney59 (Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
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To: ViLaLuz

Of course its coming. How else will the elite reign in the "New Media".

You are just one router away from from being silenced.


56 posted on 02/22/2005 5:01:54 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
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To: ViLaLuz
The terrorist-UN uses sex slaves, food-for-sex, and now wants to control
all Internet chat rooms to obtain even more underage UN sex-slaves.

UN-believable.

57 posted on 02/22/2005 5:02:52 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ViLaLuz

I fully support this idea. If there's one thing that will guarantee a free and unfettered internet, it's the incompetent United Nations trying to 'control' it.


58 posted on 02/22/2005 5:04:24 AM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: ViLaLuz

NO
F'n
WAY!


59 posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:22 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: ViLaLuz

If the UN starts running the Internet it will be the end of Free Speech over the net.


60 posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:23 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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