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.
Nope, this will happen the day I have sex with Janet Reno and Ted Kennedy apologizes to the country for Mary Jo.
I'm not surprised one bit; in fact, I've been expecting this for a long time.
I'm not surprised one bit; in fact, I've been expecting this for a long time.
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.
Sorry about the double post.
Yes, "there is an issue out there" -- the power and desires of the worthless U.N.
Tomorrow?
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.
"Sex with Janet Reno",....eeeuuuuuuwwww.
I better go have a drink. Or one or two or three. Or go take a bath.
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.
Thanks, Cindy.
You're very welcome ViLaLuz.
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.
I DON'T THINK SO!!!
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!
"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."
...and in totally unrelated news today Kofi Annan's son announced that he was starting a small ISP business in Fresno.
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