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.
"...but developing countries want a U.N. agency..."
Who gives a rat's rearend what *they* want.
Love your screen name.
The U.N. is currently busy with their Peacskeeping force raping children in far away parts of the world as the
"zecutives" in New York live the good life at the grandiose troughs in the swanky restaurants in the City.
These Cretins can,t control their own Genatilia or theie Animal urges.
This type of move would presage their Need for Global taxes on all the people of the World.
Fuggggettttttttabouttttttttttt.
I agree. The "Net" now falls under the same philosophical theories as "guns" in my book.
You almost had me goin' there - I actually looked at the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st!
<snif> <snicker>
The UN can WANT regulate anything BETWEEN countries, but I'd bet most of the right-thinking ones wouldn't let it regulate inter-country traffic.
There's going to be one heck of a battle over this territory, IMO.
Get the UN out of the USA, get the USA out of the UN.
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We've discovered another way to feed the Tree of Liberty. If they want to go back to the old way, it's on their own heads.
Even better this time, since there'll be enough people who know how this stuff works to set up servers in their homes or offices, wireless nodes, etc. Then the FCC will have a decision to make - support U.S. sovreignty, or the UN.
Let me be the first to coin a name for the "back trail" alternatives to the information superhighway. Like the old "Whiskey Roads" that the rumrunners in West Virginia used, let's call it "WhiskeyNet".
If the UN controls the internet, the computers will come out of my house.
Not a penny, peso or pfennig!
I'm betting that "out of control" bloggers and the like are their real concern. Someone telling you that your penis should be bigger isn't nearly so threatening to them as someone telling you that you ought to be in control of your own destiny.
Invent your own internet. This one belongs to us.
Forget it. No US administration, and certainly not this one, is going to do such a thing.
I think the UN headquarters for Internet Control would be in Nigeria.
Better break out the condoms and the bag, because its coming (no pun intended, aw maybe).
That's the same attitude people used to have when gun control, driver's licenses, mandatory registration, mandatory insurance, etc was first introduced in this country;
Cities like New York, New Jersey, D.C., etc have strict gun control, yet the worse crime problem.
If one wants to carry a canceled weapon, one has to APPLY for permission (i.e., license) to do so. The real funny thing about it is, people actually believe they have liberty when they beg permission to do what they have a God given right to do. 'Hey I live in a State where I'm "free" to go get a concealed carry permit.' Huh, how can one be "free" if one needs permission?
An aunt of mine (who just died at 102 years old) used to tell me when I was a young man how one never needed a drivers license, insurance, etc to own or travel in ones car. Now theres mandatory this, that and the other thing.
The entire point I'm trying to convey is, people of the past used to say the same thing and did nothing too stop it and look at what we have now.
It used to be a crime to do something or act, now we have crimes for not doing something, such as;
Pretty soon it'll be a crime to NOT beg permission from your loving WORLD government to have access to the internet.
A WORLD (NEW WORLD ORDER) government (under the loving whip of the UNITED NATIONS) is coming and unless there's a mass wakeup in this country, then there's NO WAY to stop it. The people of this country are so comfortable in their gilded cages (not even realizing they're living in a cage) and will do anything to keep themselves surrounded by that comfortable cage all the while believing they have liberty.
How did you know about my penis?!!
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